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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2537940, member: 42773"]An excellent choice! The coin is well-struck and centered on both sides with admirable style, and the surfaces are smooth and clean with natural, dark toning. Here is a page that will help you decipher the abbreviations on the reverse, if you are unfamiliar with them...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.wnccoins.com/0022.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wnccoins.com/0022.htm" rel="nofollow">Reading Ancient Roman Coins</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Victory was not merely a personification in Roman religion, but a full-fledged goddess whose temples abounded throughout the empire. The earliest instance of the scene of Victory inscribing a shield occurs on the quinarii of the Republic moneyer C. Egnatuleius, 97 BC. (If there's an earlier one, please correct me!) </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]543362[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="http://www.wnccoins.com/0022.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wnccoins.com/0022.htm" rel="nofollow"></a></p><p>Welcome aboard![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2537940, member: 42773"]An excellent choice! The coin is well-struck and centered on both sides with admirable style, and the surfaces are smooth and clean with natural, dark toning. Here is a page that will help you decipher the abbreviations on the reverse, if you are unfamiliar with them... [URL='http://www.wnccoins.com/0022.htm']Reading Ancient Roman Coins[/URL] Victory was not merely a personification in Roman religion, but a full-fledged goddess whose temples abounded throughout the empire. The earliest instance of the scene of Victory inscribing a shield occurs on the quinarii of the Republic moneyer C. Egnatuleius, 97 BC. (If there's an earlier one, please correct me!) [ATTACH=full]543362[/ATTACH] [URL='http://www.wnccoins.com/0022.htm'][/URL] Welcome aboard![/QUOTE]
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