Alegandron had a SLAM-DANCE!

Behold... FREEDOM!

I just captured a great Quinarius from 97 BCE... and my 2 lb. Hammer had a SLAM-DANCE with the dreaded Slab!

Freed from captivity, freed from tyranny, and there was slam-dancing in the streets!

Post your Quinarii!!! (Res Publica or ... Empire... )




Roman Republic
AR Quinarius 97 BCE
15.3mm, 1.62g
Moneyer: C. Egnatuleius C F
Obv: Laurel Head of Apollo r., C EGNATULEI CF behind (NAT and VL in monogram)
Q below
Rev: Victory standing l., inscribing shield attached to trophy at foot of which is a carnyx, Q below in central field, ROMA in ex.
(Duplication of Q on Obv and Rev suggests that they are intended as a value - Quinarius, instead of a V; as well as designation of the issuer as Quaestor.)

Please post your Quinarii !!! (Res Publica or ...Empire... )

 

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Nice coin!

 

LOL, @TIF I was thinking of you, as to how to open a slab!, when I was doing the slam-dance on the Quinarius!

 

Quinarii are consistently less available than denarii and cost more. I have only a couple low grade, common ones.
Q. Titius


Hadrian

 

I love you delicate surgical method of removing the coin. I do not have a quinarius to share. Doug showed you two so I am covered. (thanks Doug)

 

Yes, as they say from the Military... it was a Surgical STRIKE! Dooaahhhh

 

I have no quinarii . How about a middle child, the victoriatus?


Roman Republic, anonymous AR victoriatus
211-208 BCE, Sicily mint?
15 mm, 3.2 gm
Obv: laureate head of Jupiter right
Rev: Victory standing right, erecting (crowning?) trophy; ROMA in exergue
Ref: Crawford 67/1, BMC 137?

 

Well done! A descendent of the Roman Drachm!

 

See @ancientcoinguru he's cracking it out properly.

Excellent pieces all.

 

Wow Alegandron, that's some amazingly skillful and intricate work!! (you're kinda like a surgeon with that delicate touch, eh?) => very cool lil' silver coin!!

... yah, I don't have a Quinarius either (*sigh*)

 

I have tried the pliers method, the screwdriver method, the hammer-and-chisel method, the yell-at-it method... However, I found that a 2 lb. hammer (sledge variety), smartly tapping the 4 edges while on my vise, will carefully crack the sonic weld of the slab. Easily comes apart!

Send me your slabs and I will free them! LOL, however, they may want to party with my coins and stay at my house for a little while...

 

I always say get a bigger hammer!! great coin love the freedom!!

 

Love the Kahn Avatar, dude! Well done!

 

LOL, reminiscent of "Walk softly and carry a big stick!" ca. 1901, by then Vice-President, USA Theodore Roosevelt...

 

Quinarius are some of my favorites, so here they are!

211-208 BC
Anonymous
AR quinarius 2.1gm- 14mm

98 BC
T. Cloelius
AR quinarius 1.8gm - 17 mm

90 BC
L. Calpurnius Piso L.f. Frugi
AR quinarius 1.9 gm - 15 mm

89 BC
M. Porcius Cato
AR quinarius 2.16gm - 14 mm

87 BC
L. Rubruis Dossenus
AR quinarius 1.93 gm - 13 mm

 

Oops! Almost forgot my imperatorial quinarius...

29-28 BC
Octavian
AR quinarius 1.7gm - 14 mm

 

Thank you EVERYone for your comments! I would like to further offer a few Roman Republic coins in response to the issues given above:

First: @TIF posted a wonderful Victoriatus... the descendant of the Roman Drachm issued to pay for fighting with the Greek city-states in Southern Italy.

My two Victoratii


Roman Republic
AR Victoriatus (Roman Drachm)
211-206 BCE
Obv: Laurel Head of Iupiter
Rev: Victory Standing, Crowning Trophy, ROMA in ex
Sear 49

 

And, to @ancientcoinguru , I love Quinarii also! Good to see a fellow, albeit rare, Roman Republican collector! I think if we COMBINED our collections, we would hammer most of the Republican Quinarii issues!!! Here are my Quinarii:

Roman Republic
AR Quinarius
214-213 BCE (Rare)
Obv: Roma bust, V behind
Rev: Dioscuri, ROMA in ex
Crawford 44/6, Sydenham 169
15mm

 

Roman Republic
AR Quinarius
211-208 BCE
Obv: Roma bust, V behind
Rev: Dioscuri, ROMA in ex
Sear 42
14.7mm

 

Roman Republic
AR Quinarius
101 BCE
Moneyer: C FUNDANIUS
Obv: Laurel Head of IVPITER
Rev: Victory standing r, Crowning trophy, at foot is kneeling captive and carnyx, C FVNDA, in ex Q
Sear 205
14.2mm

This issue was patterned from the Victoriatus (Roman Drachma). After a century, the Quinarius was revived to celebrate Marius' victory over the Teutones, Ambrones, and Cimbri Germanic Tribes who had migrated into Southern Gaul and threatened Rome.