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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4648228, member: 110350&quot;]Last night I was browsing the finds.org.uk website guide to Roman coins, which looks like it&#039;s intended to aid metal detectors, and is apparently run by the British Museum.&nbsp; In the website&#039;s guide to &quot;reverse personifications,&quot; at <a href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/personifications/named/as/Virtus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/personifications/named/as/Virtus" rel="nofollow">https://finds.org.uk/romancoins/personifications/named/as/Virtus</a> , here&#039;s the description of Virtus: </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if whoever wrote this decided that Virtus is male because they lifted this description from David Sear, or reached that conclusion independently.&nbsp; How they account for her bare breast in all her portrayals -- often extremely obvious -- or the fact that &quot;Virtus&quot; is grammatically feminine, or the fact that every other authority agrees that the personification of Virtus is female, I have no idea. </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER], do you think the British Museum might be open to persuasion that this characterization of Virtus is inaccurate?&nbsp; I wouldn&#039;t even begin to know whom to contact.&nbsp; Does anyone here know someone there?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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