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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 8161915, member: 75937"]I consider the accoutrements of a deity to fall into two categories: primary and secondary. Primary attributes are distinctive, but secondary attributes may or may not may be determinative. For example, take this denarius of Faustina the Elder. The reverse figure is not explicitly identified; rather, the reverse inscription denotes the late empress' title of Augusta. [ATTACH=full]1424695[/ATTACH]We note that on coins of Faustina I with the reverse legend CERES, Ceres is always portrayed holding corn-ears and torch. The corn-ears are a primary attribute and are not used by other personifications; therefore, a figure holding corn-ears should be identified as Ceres. The torch is also used by other deities, such as Vesta and Diana, but unless other attributes indicate a different interpretation, the torch is also determinative of Ceres. In the case of your Hadrian, the reverse figure has no primary attribute, for neither scales nor cornucopiae belong to Moneta or Aequitas alone. Both are secondary attributes. But you have done the research needed to identify if one or the other is determinative. The scales appear with the cornucopiae ONLY on the coins of Moneta and the cornucopiae is thus determinative of Moneta. Therefore, on the coins of Hadrian, an unnamed figure with both scales and cornucopiae is Moneta.[/QUOTE]