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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3997327, member: 82322"]Here is one with simpulum and palladium. I notice you capitalize "palladium". The Wikipedia <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_(classical_antiquity)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_(classical_antiquity)" rel="nofollow">page</a> capitalizes some uses, not others, I am not sure how to we are to know what is correct. It is especially confusing because there is a metal, palladium, which is never capitalized and also used for commemorative coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a Vesta reverse I acquired exactly two years ago at the New York International.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1052384[/ATTACH] </p><p>Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), denarius, 17.5mm, 3.26g, Rome mint. Struck AD 145-147</p><p>Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XV; Laureate head right</p><p>Rev: COS IIII; Vesta standing left, holding simpulum and palladium.</p><p>Ref: RIC II 203; RSC 196</p><p><br /></p><p>This reverse image seems to have some kind of polka-dot apron that I don't recognize. I know Vesta wears "stolla" and "palla" but I am not sure exactly what is going on with mine. What is the stolla and what is the palla here?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3997327, member: 82322"]Here is one with simpulum and palladium. I notice you capitalize "palladium". The Wikipedia [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_(classical_antiquity)']page[/URL] capitalizes some uses, not others, I am not sure how to we are to know what is correct. It is especially confusing because there is a metal, palladium, which is never capitalized and also used for commemorative coins. Here is a Vesta reverse I acquired exactly two years ago at the New York International. [ATTACH=full]1052384[/ATTACH] Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161), denarius, 17.5mm, 3.26g, Rome mint. Struck AD 145-147 Obv: ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P XV; Laureate head right Rev: COS IIII; Vesta standing left, holding simpulum and palladium. Ref: RIC II 203; RSC 196 This reverse image seems to have some kind of polka-dot apron that I don't recognize. I know Vesta wears "stolla" and "palla" but I am not sure exactly what is going on with mine. What is the stolla and what is the palla here?[/QUOTE]
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