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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8220422, member: 110350"]Thanks for the very nice compliment, [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]. I appreciate knowing that somebody reads these things! This happens to be a kind of coin I really enjoy writing up: one for which there's an unresolved disagreement among scholars as to the identification of a deity or other personage on a coin, and there are defensible arguments for each interpretation. Especially when I think I'm qualified to offer an opinion on who's right, rather than simply presenting the different interpretations. Another example of such a coin that comes to mind is the M. Herennius denarius, for which there's been an unresolved disagreement since the 19th century (at least!) as to whether the figures on the reverse represent one of the Catanaean brothers carrying his father to escape from Mt. Etna, or Aeneas carrying his father to escape from fallen Troy. That led to one of my longest writeups ever! (See the thread at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republican-no-55-aeneas-or-catanaean-brothers.380718/#post-7568886" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republican-no-55-aeneas-or-catanaean-brothers.380718/#post-7568886">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republican-no-55-aeneas-or-catanaean-brothers.380718/#post-7568886</a>.) PS: Your opinion on the meaning of "408" makes sense to me.[/QUOTE]