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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carausius, post: 3344248, member: 76440&quot;]Sorry Bert, but you are entirely incorrect with respect to this coin.&nbsp; The OP coin was struck in Rome, circa 79 BCE, thus there is certainly no Christian symbolism.&nbsp; In fact, the coin is quite pagan in it&#039;s motifs. The obverse depicts Juno Sospita, recognizable by her goatskin headdress.&nbsp; There was a temple/cult to Juno Sospita in Lanuvium, a Latin town 32km southeast of Rome.&nbsp; Papius was a Roman Republican magistrate only known through his coins, and it’s likely that Papius or his family came from Lanuvium.&nbsp;&nbsp; The griffin on the reverse may have some connection to the cult of Juno Sospita, but it&#039;s unclear.</p><p><br /></p><p>These denarii have paired obverse and reverse control symbols, with no symbol pair appearing on more than one set of dies. The paired control symbols have some loose relationship to one another. Sydenham argued that the symbols were propaganda for popularist trade guilds. However, because of the breadth and variety of symbol material, Crawford rules-out any intended meaning. This same control system of paired symbols would be re-used 20 years later by another Lanuvian, L. Roscius Fabatus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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