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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 6448342, member: 87200&quot;]Great examples all. I have more of these than I&#039;d care to state due to their prevalence in unclean &quot;hoards&quot;. I&#039;m intrigued by the shield types and wonder about the significance. In the Notitia Dignitatum some decades later there is a distinct shield type for each military unit depicted, so one wonders if this was in practice yet in the time of Constantius II. </p><p><br /></p><p>For example:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256480[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Above image came <a href="http://lukeuedasarson.com/NotLanciarii.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://lukeuedasarson.com/NotLanciarii.html" rel="nofollow">from this website</a>, which attempts to portray each shield type. If you google Notitia Dignitatum you can get distracted for hours reading all of the information contained in the document. With regard to the shield types, one of the issues is that the images are copies of copies, largely made in the Middle Ages, so accuracy can be a problem. The original Notitia Dignitatum was found in the parish cathedral of Speyer, Germany in the 16th century I believe, and this source document was inevitably a copy of earlier works.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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