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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2770315, member: 76181&quot;]Ok, the scales are tipping. I can see a celator looking at a contemporary cap and adopting it to represent Vulcans cap by adding the garland. Thus getting a banded and garlanded cap.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am still not sure how one determines that it does not serve as a dual purpose symbol (both Vulcan cap AND punch die)</p><p><br /></p><p>But I am enjoying the discourse and research.</p><p><br /></p><p>btw look here and read the detailed description by the BM. I just saw this and they seem to echo what I am suggesting (and TIF) </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/silver-denarius-showing-juno-moneta/hgHWq91k6IPIug" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/silver-denarius-showing-juno-moneta/hgHWq91k6IPIug" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/asset/silver-denarius-showing-juno-moneta/hgHWq91k6IPIug</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;On the back of the coin are depicted tools associated with metalworking: in the centre an anvil, on the left a pair of tongs and on the right a hammer. Above the anvil is an uncertain object decorated with a wreath. It may be the smith&#039;s cap worn by Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking. Alternatively, the tools shown may be those of an ancient Roman coin-maker, if we interpret the &#039;cap&#039; as an upper die about to be struck by the hammer onto a blank held by the tongs. The coin was made by the moneyer Titus Carisius.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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