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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1923677, member: 19463&quot;]Originality where we might least expect to find it?&nbsp; So many later rulers were Pius Felix and Pius was well established on coins before this but Felix was not.&nbsp; Adding the T might give a clue what the word was but EV EV C seems a bit cryptic.&nbsp; I suppose there were few enough people who could read the coins that the same elite could be expected to be able to dicipher the abbreviations.&nbsp; I wonder how many of the literate of the day were only semi-literate?&nbsp; I suspect it was fewer than in modern times.&nbsp; Since learning to read was not expected of all, those who did may have been more fully educated.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>What does accusative imply?&nbsp; Genitive (Constans&#039; first issue) reads &#039;on behalf of the little kid&#039;.&nbsp; Dative (Trajan) reads &#039;to the honor of&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; I might take accusative as &#039;upon whom the power was thrust even though it wasn&#039;t his idea&#039; but that does not seem appropriate for how Aemilian came to power.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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