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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 3118631, member: 86498"]I think it is important to view the images on Roman coins not as individual messages but as part of a larger mozaic made up of images on other coins minted at the same time. Bernard Woytek grouped this particular issue in his Gruppe 10 Cluster 2 dated second half 107- 108 A.D. The rest of the group includes a denarius with the image of Fortuna standing left, another with Mars standing facing right, Aurei and denarii with Trajan in triumphal chariot,denarii with the DAC CAP reverse (captive seated on pile of arms, as well as the DANVVIVS type. It would seem more likely that the message given out by the group is that Trajan, with the support of Mars and Fortuna is victorious over Dacia,bringing that territory into the empire The Danube is no longer part of the wild frontier but now a river tamed, within the empire.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 3118631, member: 86498"]I think it is important to view the images on Roman coins not as individual messages but as part of a larger mozaic made up of images on other coins minted at the same time. Bernard Woytek grouped this particular issue in his Gruppe 10 Cluster 2 dated second half 107- 108 A.D. The rest of the group includes a denarius with the image of Fortuna standing left, another with Mars standing facing right, Aurei and denarii with Trajan in triumphal chariot,denarii with the DAC CAP reverse (captive seated on pile of arms, as well as the DANVVIVS type. It would seem more likely that the message given out by the group is that Trajan, with the support of Mars and Fortuna is victorious over Dacia,bringing that territory into the empire The Danube is no longer part of the wild frontier but now a river tamed, within the empire.[/QUOTE]
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