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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2172599, member: 19463&quot;]The mail today produced two very different mid grade Republican denarii. I like Republicans that show something just a little different from most.&nbsp; These fit that requirement.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is c.140 BC at the time that Rome revalued the denarius from 10 to 16 asses.&nbsp; A few issues spelled out this change replacing the X denomination mark with XVI.&nbsp; Soon afterward it became more common to use a * monogram combining the elements of XVI rather than spelling it out.&nbsp; This is one of the full XVI issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]419706[/ATTACH] </p><p>C. Valerius Flaccus AR denarius 19mm 3.94g Crawford 228/1</p><p>Roma head / Victory in biga</p><p>I usually avoid getting just another Roma/chariot type but the XVI made this a keeper.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second is much later at 55 BC after types became more original.&nbsp; The head is Mars but the reverse is a battle scene described by the experts as a horseman spearing a combatant who protects himself with a shield while attacking a second, but unarmed, figure.&nbsp; Honestly I can&#039;t say I see how they decided that the one was attacking the other rather than just being two enemies.&nbsp; Perhaps better specimens are more clear.&nbsp; Under the shield held by the small figure there is something I am reading as a helmet that fell off someone&#039;s head.&nbsp; The coin has a good, old tone.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]419707[/ATTACH] </p><p>P. FONTEIVS PF CAPITO IIIVIR / MN FONT TR MIL</p><p>P. Fonteius Capito Crawford 429/1 55 BC 17mm 3.85g.</p><p><br /></p><p>What do you see in the scene?&nbsp; This is a crop from the full size image which was reduced above. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]419714[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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