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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1737360, member: 19463&quot;]Long necks were considered regal in several periods of history.&nbsp; Steve&#039;s coin also is an interesting (to me) example of another point.&nbsp; The reverse legend is RESTITVTORBIS which is short for RESTITVTOR ORBIS.&nbsp; They exist spelled out but more are abbreviated.&nbsp; The oddity comes in the spacing.&nbsp; This is unusual with RESTITVTO&nbsp;&nbsp; RBIS.&nbsp; This highlights the fact that the OR is used by both words.&nbsp; RESTITVT&nbsp; ORBIS&nbsp; would make it more obvious that the OR is removed from the first word but I don&#039;t have one of these to show.&nbsp; Do you?&nbsp; Anyone?&nbsp; Harder to read is RESTITVTOR&nbsp;&nbsp; BIS since my modern eye feels it used the OR on the first word so I&#039;m looking for a meaning for BIS without the OR.&nbsp; I believe the problem here is I am using those modern &#039;eyes&#039; while the dies were cut in a culture that did not attach importance to word spacing to the level we do.&nbsp; Beginning Latin teaches that the Romans did not space words but that is a bit of an overstatement if you look at the number of coins that do break legends at word boundaries.&nbsp; Certainly they did not make the big thing of it we do.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Bis is Latin for twice.&nbsp; When I see RESTITVTOR&nbsp; BIS I want to read &#039;Restorer for the second time&#039; rather than &#039;Restorer of the World&#039;.&nbsp; What I would love to know is if the man on the street in the 270&#039;s would have seen this double meaning or if that is a fabrication of the modern imagination.&nbsp;&nbsp; Many collectors of ancient coins will never care about such questions but the material is there for those who decide to study whys and hows rather than just fill holes in an album.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]273089.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]273090.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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