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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2314780, member: 42773&quot;]On this type, Roma holds a palladium, which this engraver has imbued with copious detail.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>In Greek and Roman mythology, a palladion (Greek) or palladium (Latin) was an image of great antiquity on which the safety of a city was said to depend. &quot;Palladium&quot; especially signified the wooden statue of Pallas Athena that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from the citadel of Troy and which was later taken to Rome by Aeneas. The Roman story is related in Virgil&#039;s Aeneid and other works. -- Dictionary of Roman Coins.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin wasn&#039;t exactly in a junk box, but it was thrown into a lot of decrepit coins where it didn&#039;t belong in the least.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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