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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3268386, member: 19463&quot;]Don&#039;t believe everything you read even here on CT.&nbsp; During the periods where the distinction was made, a space over the head indicated a more senior person than did a continuous arch.&nbsp; It had nothing to do with living or dead.&nbsp; There are many coins of current rulers with no break and dean rulers with a space.&nbsp; The main thing to learn here is rules were made to be broken especially when the rules were made by collectors millennia after the fact.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few examples:</p><p>&nbsp;A coin of the young Valentinian II when he was a junior ruler:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861479[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A later coin of the same Valentinian II but after he had risen in power and got the space:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861480[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Divus Marcus Aurelius still has his gap after he died:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861484[/ATTACH] </p><p>Septimius Severus usually got the space of honor but sometimes it was small and came at a natural word break.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861493[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Other times the space was larger and came mid-word.&nbsp; Here there is even a dot in the break.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]861499[/ATTACH] </p><p>The subject of breaks and the meanings they carried is not a small one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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