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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2799940, member: 84744"]An interesting bust, and also some interesting purple on that coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>I like the abdication folli of Maximianus and (here) Diocletian (Rome mint). He's holding a branch and mappa, and wearing an "imperial mantle". According to David Sear, the mappa was "originally the white napkin dropped by an emperor or magistrate as a starting signal at the Circus, in late Roman iconography it came to be a used as one of the principal attributes of the consuls."</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]652522[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2799940, member: 84744"]An interesting bust, and also some interesting purple on that coin! I like the abdication folli of Maximianus and (here) Diocletian (Rome mint). He's holding a branch and mappa, and wearing an "imperial mantle". According to David Sear, the mappa was "originally the white napkin dropped by an emperor or magistrate as a starting signal at the Circus, in late Roman iconography it came to be a used as one of the principal attributes of the consuls." [ATTACH=full]652522[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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