SENTIAM. -- Fortune standing, with her
rudder and cornucopia. -- Rev. FELICITER, without
type. -- These appear on a leaden coin, or
tessera, of the third magnitude ; and Seguin in
his Selecta Num. Antiq. has honoured it with an
attempt at explanation, more copious and much
more serious than merited by, or elucidative of,
the subject ; on which Baudelot, in his Utilité
des Voyages , is judiciously briefer, but scarcely
more luminous. -- These counters, in the heaviest
and dullest of metals, if they have any meaning,
have most probably reference to the feelings and
fortunes of the private individual who caused
them to be struck.