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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 7687880, member: 96898"]That's a good argument, and I'm nearly convinced that you are right. This thread might have to be retitled to "That's no way to hold a baby!"</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet looking at the coins in OCRE (see <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=flower+juno" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=flower+juno" rel="nofollow">here</a>), I'm still a bit confused. On some of them, the attribute can be read as a baby, On some it's just a stick-like object, and on others, like this British Museum example, it quite clearly appears to be the palladium:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1320148[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If that's an engraver's error, it at least appears to have been a rather frequent one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: And on this example (from <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=mamaea+juno+sester&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=mamaea+juno+sester&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0" rel="nofollow">here</a>) of the sestertius version, the "infant" looks rather like the short sceptre that Juno Lucinae according to RIC holds on RIC III Antoninus Pius 391A (picture from <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.391A" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.391A" rel="nofollow">here</a> below). Maybe the engravers were unequivocal about what they were supposed to depict?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1320154[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1320153[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 7687880, member: 96898"]That's a good argument, and I'm nearly convinced that you are right. This thread might have to be retitled to "That's no way to hold a baby!" Yet looking at the coins in OCRE (see [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=flower+juno']here[/URL]), I'm still a bit confused. On some of them, the attribute can be read as a baby, On some it's just a stick-like object, and on others, like this British Museum example, it quite clearly appears to be the palladium: [ATTACH=full]1320148[/ATTACH] If that's an engraver's error, it at least appears to have been a rather frequent one. Edit: And on this example (from [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=mamaea+juno+sester&category=1-2&lot=&thesaurus=1&images=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1¤cy=usd&order=0']here[/URL]) of the sestertius version, the "infant" looks rather like the short sceptre that Juno Lucinae according to RIC holds on RIC III Antoninus Pius 391A (picture from [URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.391A']here[/URL] below). Maybe the engravers were unequivocal about what they were supposed to depict? [ATTACH=full]1320154[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1320153[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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