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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3102760, member: 44316&quot;]I have a web site &quot;SECVRITAS: The real meaning&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/SECVRITAS.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/SECVRITAS.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/SECVRITAS.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I wrote it after the late Ted Buttrey gave me a Latin lesson on the type.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785533[/ATTACH] </p><p>A denarius of Caracalla, Roman emperor (198-217), originally under his father (Septimius Severus, 193-211 AD).</p><p>SECVRIT ORBIS&nbsp; (security of the world)</p><p>A languid, care-free, Securitas seated leaning back, right. She holds a vertical scepter and behind and to the right there is a lighted and garlanded altar.</p><p>Silver. 18 mm. 3.61 grams.</p><p>Struck 198-199 at Rome.</p><p>BMC V (SS and Caracalla) 118.</p><p><br /></p><p>The types hint that the modern &quot;security&quot; interpretation was more appropriate in the fourth century, while earlier the meaning was closer to &quot;care-free&quot; which the etymology suggests.&nbsp; See the site for more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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