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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 3942243, member: 74834&quot;]Thanks very much, Aidan! Now I understand, a meta, the conical poles that were used as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_(building)#Meta" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_(building)#Meta" rel="nofollow">turning points</a> in the horse race circus. </p><p>A symbol to mark a certain period of validity or mintmaster? </p><p>Interesting, a large and attractive coin from the end of the Second Punic War, that I had to learn all about at school (and made me an admirer of Quintus Fabius Maximus <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Verrucosus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintus_Fabius_Maximus_Verrucosus" rel="nofollow">Cunctator</a>). And I visited the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Trasimene" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Trasimene" rel="nofollow">Trasimene Lake</a>, a visit that made history visual. </p><p><br /></p><p>-- Paul[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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