For a few minutes after the verdict was read Wednesday, only one thing was clear: A Texas-based investment group had bested one of the nation’s largest financial institutions, TD Bank, in the contentious first trial involving Scott Rothstein’s $1.2 billion Ponzi scam.

The amount of damages was up for interpretation as the Miami federal jury used the same amounts for each of two fraud counts. Not even the counsel for Coquina Investments was sure.