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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4563889, member: 89514&quot;]Donna,</p><p><br /></p><p>The grammatical argument is, I think, decisive. Were any other grammatically female qualities, for example Concordia, Felicitas, Justitia, Libertas, Pax, Salus, Securitas, Victoria, ever depicted as male rather than female personifications?</p><p><br /></p><p>David Sear is not, I think, insisting that Virtus is masculine; it&#039;s just an assumption he made in his youth, maybe an older error that he took over from another author, which he has been repeating over the decades because no one has taken the time to point out the mistake to him.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know much about Republican coins, but strongly doubt that the two moneyers on your coin had any intention of representing themselves as Honos and Virtus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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