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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nathan B., post: 4608566, member: 112852&quot;]PlanoSteve is just being modest.&nbsp; He actually had a great victory over the barbarians, and medals were struck in his honour.&nbsp; Unfortunately, owing to the <i>damnatio memoriae</i> of a wicked emperor who usurped PlanoSteve&#039;s throne, forcing him into retirement, every medal was hunted down and remorselessly destroyed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fortunately, a plaster cast was made of the reverse and hidden away.&nbsp; Owing to the fact that only the reverse was made, we can infer that the copyist was interrupted, perhaps by the knock of a Roman centurion at his door.&nbsp; This cast was safeguarded through the years, until in the fullness of time, an anonymous 15-century Venetian artist was able to use the cast as the basis for new single-instance issue of the medal, thus preserving the memory of this victory for posterity:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1141429[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Plano Stephanus, XYZ, Vol. IV, No. 3</p><p>Obverse: plain (not shown)</p><p>Reverse: Stephanus, radiate head facing right</p><p>Inscription from top: VICTORIAE STEPH. BARB.</p><p>Reverse: Victory standing right, holding an olive branch and laurel wreath</p><p>Venetian copy after an unknown Roman minted original</p><p>Weight: 30 g.</p><p>c. 15th century, Venice</p><p>Original copy in the Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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