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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4053751, member: 110350&quot;]Kevin, I think I found an explanation of the &quot;figure-eight&quot;-shaped shield that Juno Sospita holds.&nbsp; There was a thread here about Juno Sospita last September, started by Jochen 1.&nbsp; See <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/juno-sospita.347727/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/juno-sospita.347727/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/juno-sospita.347727/</a>.&nbsp; He notes that the depictions of Juno Sospita at her sanctuary in Lavinium &quot;show the goddess armed with spear and a violin-shaped shield looking like the shield of the Salii priests, wearing (Etruscan) beak-shoes which were bended upwards at the toe-cap and a goat-skin which was helmeted-like pulled over her head.&quot;&nbsp; The mythological Shield of the Salii, or <i>ancilia</i>, are depicted on coins of Augustus and Antoninus Pius, and are &quot;made from two round shields with a small oval shield laying above them connected alltogether with numerous bolts.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The connection between Sospita&#039;s shield and the <i>ancilia </i>is supported by David R. Sear, whose online Glossary of Frequently Encountered Terms in Roman Coin Descriptions (also found in each volume of the Millenium Edition of Roman Coin Values) states as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Ancile</i>&nbsp; a shield of distinctive form (narrow central section of oval shape with broad curving extensions at top and bottom). It was a particular attribute of Juno Sospita and was associated with the Salian priesthood of Mars.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.davidrsear.com/academy/roman_glossary.html#Ancile" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.davidrsear.com/academy/roman_glossary.html#Ancile" rel="nofollow">https://www.davidrsear.com/academy/roman_glossary.html#Ancile</a>.&nbsp; See also the discussion of the <i>ancile</i> at <a href="https://www.romanumismatics.com/historicarticles?view=article&amp;article_id=509" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.romanumismatics.com/historicarticles?view=article&amp;article_id=509" rel="nofollow">https://www.romanumismatics.com/historicarticles?view=article&amp;article_id=509</a>, with a photo of a nice example of an Augustus denarius (RIC 343) depicting two <i>ancilia</i> on the reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.romanumismatics.com/images/historic-articles/db_file_img_94145_690x0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is at least one other L. Procilius denarius depicting Juno Sospita on the reverse holding the same kind of shield as in the one I own:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/l-procilius-ar-denarius-roma-ex-ny-sale-xxiii-2010-jpg.1002633/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Crawford 379/2, RSC I, Procilia 2 (photo posted by Carthago in the earlier Juno Sospita thread).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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