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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 7679720, member: 75937"]There is another -- and more probable, IMO -- explanation for why SPQR looks more like SPOP: a <a href="https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=1422" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=1422" rel="nofollow">filled die</a>. Crud got down inside the tail of the Q and the R after making hundreds and hundreds of coins and metal couldn't flow into those areas of the dies. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for identifying deities and personifications when they are not explicitly labeled requires a knowledge of the various combinations of attributes. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1319065[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is Homonoia (Concordia), because she's holding a patera and cornucopiae. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1319067[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is Pax, because she's holding a branch and cornucopiae.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1319068[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is Victoria, because she has wings and is holding a wreath and palm branch.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1319069[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is Ceres, because she's holding grain ears and a torch.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1319071[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is Vesta because she's holding the Palladium and a scepter. </p><p><br /></p><p>And so on ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 7679720, member: 75937"]There is another -- and more probable, IMO -- explanation for why SPQR looks more like SPOP: a [URL='https://coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq/coins.pl?coin=1422']filled die[/URL]. Crud got down inside the tail of the Q and the R after making hundreds and hundreds of coins and metal couldn't flow into those areas of the dies. As for identifying deities and personifications when they are not explicitly labeled requires a knowledge of the various combinations of attributes. [ATTACH=full]1319065[/ATTACH] This is Homonoia (Concordia), because she's holding a patera and cornucopiae. [ATTACH=full]1319067[/ATTACH] This is Pax, because she's holding a branch and cornucopiae. [ATTACH=full]1319068[/ATTACH] This is Victoria, because she has wings and is holding a wreath and palm branch. [ATTACH=full]1319069[/ATTACH] This is Ceres, because she's holding grain ears and a torch. [ATTACH=full]1319071[/ATTACH] This is Vesta because she's holding the Palladium and a scepter. And so on ...[/QUOTE]
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