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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2471222, member: 42773&quot;]Anyway, back to my post: as you&#039;ve stated, the personification Providentia is frequently portrayed with a baton and globe, or at least holding a globe. It would be nice and clean if every reverse that had the inscription PROVIDENTIA showed a figure with baton and globe, but this is not the case. In fact, during the Severan dynasty, the inscription PROVIDENTIA is combined with the figure of Annona <b>more often</b> than with the figure of Providentia. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is not conversely true of coins with the reverse legend ANNONA, however. To my knowledge, the personification Providentia never appears on reverse types inscribed ANNONA. </p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, I conclude that coins inscribed ANNONA refer specifically to the figure on the coin, whereas coins marked PROVIDENTIA refer to the figure on the coin when the figure is actually Providentia, but to the foresight of the emperor when the figure is Annona.</p><p><br /></p><p>As to how we categorize the reverse types, I think it&#039;s easiest to go by the inscriptions, so we can call coins Annona and Providentia types by their legends, regardless which personification appears on the Providentia types.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does any of that make sense? This is all off-the-cuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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