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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2742189, member: 19463&quot;]Lets talk about ridicule.&nbsp; Is it ridicule to point out an error even if we do it in a nice manner?&nbsp; Some will think so and some will get mad and go away.&nbsp; I&#039;m sorry but several of us date back to when it was OK to use red pencils when grading tests without fear of wounding the psyche of youth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nathan is right.&nbsp; It is a peacock.&nbsp; I don&#039;t care what it&nbsp; looks like, the gods had what we call attributes or things that made their images recognizable.&nbsp; Juno was usually shown with her attribute the peacock.&nbsp; Some of them do look a little ducky but saying so might injure the psyche of the die cutter who has been dead for 1800 years.&nbsp; IMHO, Nathan did it nicely and we all owe him thanks for not being even slightly nasty.</p><p><br /></p><p>At risk of being ridiculous but not ridiculing, I show below two other Juno birds.&nbsp; Both are, by definition, peacocks.&nbsp; The Julia Maesa does have a bit of a chicken look and I&#039;ll swear that the Mamaea is a Dodo bird (not extinct back then).&nbsp; Nooooo!&nbsp; All we see here is the fact that some die cutters are better than others.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]626191[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]626192[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>While Juno is not mentioned on the coin, this death commemorative of Faustina II calls upon Juno to aid the empress by showing her Peacock in unquestionable splendor.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]626194[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Welcome to Coin Talk - Ancients.&nbsp; We will be happy to see your coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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