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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2652827, member: 83956&quot;]Sorry to leave off rhapsodizing about Tennessee, but I had a further question about this coin for [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER] or anyone else who might have insight. I&#039;m trying to understand how the reverse imagery works. Does the &quot;PR&quot; in fields make this coin, then, in essence a votive coin, like the &quot;VOT PR&quot; type? Here&#039;s what I&#039;ve written. Please confirm or correct if you can:</p><p><br /></p><p>ROMAE AETERNAE; “To Eternal Rome”; Roma seated right, shield in lap inscribed XV; two letters P and R appear in fields left and right of Roma. XV means “15” and <i>PR </i>stands for the “Populi Romani”; the XV is a reference to Constantine’s <i>quindecennalia</i>, or fifteenth year with imperial power, which was in 320 A.D.&nbsp; Perhaps the reverse imagery means that Constantine is making vows to continue serving the Roman people–vows occasioned by his fifteenth year of imperial power (either as Caesar or Augustus).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]587154[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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