Maximo VI Consule

takes the letters VI for numerals, which occasions a strange

anachronism. They are only contractions of _Viro Illustri_--V I.

As absurd a blunder was this of Dr. Stukeley on the coins of Carausius;

finding a battered one with a defaced inscription of

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