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Shield
decorated with slow quadriga left, with emperor, or
Sol.
It's perhaps difficult to determine from the detail
as to which personage is represented, however S.
Estiot suggests (p.c.) that the slow quadriga
represents a processus consularis, and would
thus imply the emperor. Whereas Sol's iconography
would employ a galloping quadriga.
Cornelius Vermeule, in "The Imperial Shield as a
mirror of Roman art on medallions and coins", citing
a similar coin in the Ashmolean, also believes this
to be Probus himself.
If so, this may be a reference to his second
consulship.
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