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[[File:Coin - Anastasius I Dicorus - B - Victory advancing right, head left, holding wreath and cross on globe; star in right field - VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM - Victoria Augustorum.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Victoria advancing toward the moning and evening star [[Venus (goddess)|Venus]] while looking at the victor's wreath and holding the [[globus cruciger]].]]
 
[[File:Coin - Anastasius I Dicorus - B - Victory advancing right, head left, holding wreath and cross on globe; star in right field - VICTORIA AVGVSTORVM - Victoria Augustorum.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Victoria advancing toward the moning and evening star [[Venus (goddess)|Venus]] while looking at the victor's wreath and holding the [[globus cruciger]].]]
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'''Victoria''', or '''Victory''', favoured goddess of the Roman Empire's Army (or equivalent thereof) and one of the principals at [[Rome]].  Her emminance was manifest as the systematic god of choice on Roman gold coins as pictured.
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'''Victoria''', or '''Victory''', synonomous with [[Venus (goddess)|Armed Venus Victrix]],favoured goddess of the Roman Empire's Armies (or equivalent thereof) and one of the principals at [[Rome]].  Her emminance was manifest as the systematic god of choice on Roman gold coins.
    
Regularly presented with wings, a giant cross (sometimes conventionalised as a sword), the wreath of victory and or the [[globus cruciger]] in hand as on the Empire's gold coins across the centuries.
 
Regularly presented with wings, a giant cross (sometimes conventionalised as a sword), the wreath of victory and or the [[globus cruciger]] in hand as on the Empire's gold coins across the centuries.
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