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Message:: [QUOTE="Calpurnia, post: 1628619, member: 35419"]Hi Stevex6: The coins of this moneyer are my favorite.  I'm sure you see the high relief of the Apollo, and this Apollo with a fillet(there is a 2nd type with a wreath) has the highest relief of any RR denarius, and in fact the reverse is often cupped-shaped to effect the high relief on the obverse.  The issue of this moneyer was one of the largest of the RR period but used control marks on the obv. and rev. to differentiate the dies. Yours has a wreath with 2 ties on the obverse while the control mark on the reverse is partly off the die at the bottom, but is a sort of "H" with an arm at the top left. There are about 500 different varieties of these  combinations of control marks but your combination or any other combination has only a few dozen surviving specimen at best.  This means that the total issue is common but each control mark combination is "Rare".  I put the word Rare in quotation marks because it doesn't increase the value, but only means that very few are known. In your reference listing is the Hersh Piso 238, and this refers to the Numismatic Chronicle for 1976 in which Charles Hersh pictures and describes the varieties and your is #238 of 485 described. A few more have been discovered since. You may already know all this or it may be more than you want to know, but I won't tell the Mrs. about it! Ron[/QUOTE]