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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3337890, member: 44316&quot;]I have an educational site on VOTA coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I added this interesting sestertius of Antoninus Pius to the second-century page:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/second.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/second.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/VOTA/second.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]884101[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="4">Antoninus Pius, 138-161</font></p><p><font size="4">A sestertuus. 31-30 mm. 24.87 grams.</font></p><p><font size="4">ANTONINVS AVG PIVS PP TRP XXII</font></p><p><font size="4">Refers to year 22 = 158/9.</font></p><p><font size="4">VOTA SOL DEC II&nbsp; &nbsp; COS IIII below&nbsp;&nbsp; [SOL for vows paid (soluta) and II for the second time]</font></p><p><font size="4">Emperor veiled and togate holding patera over tripod altar, (tiny) bull behind altar.</font></p><p><font size="4">&quot;DEC II&quot; refers to ten years for the second time.</font></p><p><font size="4">RIC 1008. BMC 2046. Sear II 4261.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">The TRP date is year 22 while the vows are paid for 20. This may be because the reckoning of TRP powers changed in 147 when Antoninus Pius finished year 9 and had year 10 and began year 11, effectively squeezing two years into one.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Many emperors did not make it to ten years, much less twenty. If you see VOT XX (for 20 years) on a coin it is usually vows taken (<i>suscepta</i>) earlier with a promise to the gods to be paid (<i>soluta</i>) if they make it to 20 years. Not many did. But, Antoninus Pius did and on this sestertius he recorded that he paid ten-year vows for the second time. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Show us a VOTA coin!</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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