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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8027064, member: 19463&quot;]He had an excuse for being short.&nbsp; He was introduced to the soldiers as a child travelling with his father.&nbsp; I regret we don&#039;t have coins of the young boy dressed as a soldier as we later did with Licinius II.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin shows Jupiter holding a thunderbolt.&nbsp; I do not have that one.</p><p>Caracalla when young:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391109[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Antoninianus with Diana as Luna in biga of oxen</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391110[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Pluto with Cerberus</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1391112[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe people today make less use of nicknames as their grandfathers did.&nbsp; In the 30&#039;s to 50&#039;s, my father &#039;Smitty&#039; ran with his friend group including an electrician named &#039;Sparky&#039; and a slender fellow called &#039;Slim&#039;.&nbsp; &#039;Tiny&#039; was OK for a name for a large man.&nbsp; Nicknames were often related to the name (Trixie or Babette).&nbsp; In the midwest where I was born, a boy would be named William and called Bill but in the American South birth certificates were as likely to read Billy or Billie.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see as much of that today in public.&nbsp; I believe it is more reserved today for very close friends and family. I have noted more than one family that refuses even to use Nick for Nicholas or Barb for Barbara.&nbsp; Fashions change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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