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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1792195, member: 19463&quot;]Whole peacocks are so last millennium.&nbsp; The <i>in</i> crowd dines on peacock tongues.&nbsp;&nbsp; The mouse is on all of these coins so it is not a control mark.&nbsp; The control is the letter above&nbsp; (mine .N).&nbsp; Banti lists 45 variations some with dots on various sides of the letters as well as mouse left and mouse right coins and a Trajan restoration version.&nbsp; &nbsp; The edict could have been from 115 when he was consul rather than 109 as censor.&nbsp; I also found a reference that Claudius repeated the ban on eating a <i>glis </i> so the practice must have been pretty common among the snooty rich.&nbsp;&nbsp; I see I misspelled the animal.&nbsp; It is dormouse referring to it sleeping a lot rather than being around openings in walls.&nbsp;&nbsp; I even see they had a word for a container in which to containing your dormouse while fattening him up - <i>gliarium.&nbsp; </i>Looking at all the photos in Banti and the half dozen on vCoins at present, I really believe that the critter is too chubby and cute to be a rat so I&#039;m sticking with my snack-rodent theory.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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