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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7875508, member: 110350&quot;]Here is Crawford&#039;s discussion of the association, describing it rather than attempting to explain why that association -- which I hadn&#039;t previously read about -- existed in the first place:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The association with Roma of the symbolism of Diana is curious. It is clearest on the bronze half-piece of the Apollo horse ROMA bronze (no. 26/4); a head of Roma forms the obverse type, the reverse type is a dog, normally the animal of Diana. <b>The crescent above the head of Roma on the denarii of P. Nerva (no. 292/1) also recalls Diana</b>. It is also worth remarking that the head of Roma first appears on a semis associated with an as portraying Diana&#039;s brother Apollo and that on a late unica (no. 285/7) the head of Roma is replaced, by way of artistic variation, by a head of Apollo. The conclusion is thus that, in spite of borrowings from the iconography of Pallas [Athena] (see p. 722 n. 2), the Romans throughout regarded Roma as having close affinities with Diana. But the female helmeted head which I regard as that of Roma cannot be <i>identified</i> as that of Diana; it is not Diana in the later Republic and there is no reason to regard it as Diana in the earlier period.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Crawford Vol. II p. 725 (footnotes omitted, boldfaced emphasis supplied, italicized emphasis in original).</p><p><br /></p><p>Any thoughts on this association would certainly be appreciated. (I&#039;ve discussed in other threads the close association between the iconographies of Roma and Virtus; see <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/virtus-vanity.381940/#post-7662141" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/virtus-vanity.381940/#post-7662141">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/virtus-vanity.381940/#post-7662141</a> and the two articles cited.) Regardless of the reason, however, I think that Roma looks very stylish on my coin with a crescent moon above her helmet. She should have appeared like that more often![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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