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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8169166, member: 57495"]It's an intriguing idea. I found <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3038053" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3038053" rel="nofollow">here</a> a clearer example of the Vesta type, pictured below. Not my coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1426869[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I also think it's just wishful thinking on the part of the authors. The transverse "<i>cruciform sceptre</i>" appears to me to be a regular sceptre with the top intersecting part of the backing of Vesta's throne. And the "<i>cross with its arms in the form of pellets</i>" is as RC suggested just the work of an unskilled engraver. For comparison, here's another example below (also not my coin). Easy to see how an already crudely-rendered palladium can be further reduced by another engraver to resemble the "cross" as on the one above. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1426870[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A final one below, this time mine. On the reverse, the engraver seems to have transfigured the goddess Artemis into an angel by giving her wings. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1426873[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>SALONINA</b></p><p>AE29. 9.26g, 29.5mm. IONIA, Ephesus, AD 254-268. Karwiese 1184 (this coin cited and illustrated). O: · CAΛΩN · XPVCOΓONH · CЄBA ·, diademed and draped bust right on crescent. R: EΦECIΩN Γ N-EΩ-KOPON, Artemis, standing facing, head right, raising right hand and holding bow; tree behind her, stag at her side. </p><p><i>Ex N. M. McQ. Holmes Collection; ex "Bavarian Collection" (Numismatic Fine Arts XXXI, 18 March 1993, lot 1141)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 8169166, member: 57495"]It's an intriguing idea. I found [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3038053']here[/URL] a clearer example of the Vesta type, pictured below. Not my coin: [ATTACH=full]1426869[/ATTACH] I also think it's just wishful thinking on the part of the authors. The transverse "[I]cruciform sceptre[/I]" appears to me to be a regular sceptre with the top intersecting part of the backing of Vesta's throne. And the "[I]cross with its arms in the form of pellets[/I]" is as RC suggested just the work of an unskilled engraver. For comparison, here's another example below (also not my coin). Easy to see how an already crudely-rendered palladium can be further reduced by another engraver to resemble the "cross" as on the one above. [ATTACH=full]1426870[/ATTACH] A final one below, this time mine. On the reverse, the engraver seems to have transfigured the goddess Artemis into an angel by giving her wings. :D [ATTACH=full]1426873[/ATTACH] [B]SALONINA[/B] AE29. 9.26g, 29.5mm. IONIA, Ephesus, AD 254-268. Karwiese 1184 (this coin cited and illustrated). O: · CAΛΩN · XPVCOΓONH · CЄBA ·, diademed and draped bust right on crescent. R: EΦECIΩN Γ N-EΩ-KOPON, Artemis, standing facing, head right, raising right hand and holding bow; tree behind her, stag at her side. [I]Ex N. M. McQ. Holmes Collection; ex "Bavarian Collection" (Numismatic Fine Arts XXXI, 18 March 1993, lot 1141)[/I][/QUOTE]
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