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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1628800, member: 19463"]I have only one of this series and it is a plated ancient counterfeit or fourree (right below).  The other two I show are a generation earlier when Gaius' father Lucius held the position of moneyer and issued a huge number of these coins.  Many of his dies were numbered and used to failure.  I have not done the research to see how many Lucius types there are but between father and son, this becomes a very common denarius.  [ATTACH]232317.vB[/ATTACH] I have to note that the bee/B die matching shown above is not a play on the words since the Latin word for the insect is Apis not starting with a B.  I was not aware that these were the highest relief coins.  My fourree is not high relief and the two of the father are not remarkable in this way.  It does bring up a point I find interesting about Republican coins.  The production was controled by the moneyers who hired and disciplined the workers.  Some cared more than others.  Some employed die cutters of great skill while others got the cheapest money could buy.  Some designs are well thought out and carefully produced.  Others were rushed and often off center.  There are some Republican coins that are embarrassingly bad and others that are beautiful within a very short time frame.  The Calpurnia are not my favorites but are often good looking coins.  Republicans are well studied with great books (like Crawford), several illustrated catalogs of big collections showing most of the types and now a great online resource.  The British Museum has posted its massive collection online.  The problem is that I find coins very hard to find although I suspect a bit of practice would help that.  My link below says it returns over 300 coins that might be of interest but I fail to find them all.  Does anyone have skills with this catalog that make it useful? <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/search_results.aspx?objectId=1147134&partId=1&searchText=C+Calpurnius+Piso&orig=/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/russian_icons/catalogue_of_russian_icons.aspx&sortBy=catNumber&numPages=12&currentPage=9&catalogueOnly=True&catparentPageId=29126&output=bibliography/!!/OR/!!/6738/!//!/A+catalogue+of+the+Roman+Republican+Coins+in+the+British+Museum,+with+descriptions+and+chronology+based+on+M.H.+Crawford,+Roman+Republican+Coinage+(1974)/!//!!//!!!/&queryAll=People/!!/OR/!!/156141/!/156141-4-3/!/Moneyer+C+Calpurnius+Piso+Frugi/!//!!//!!!/&allCurrentPage=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/search_results.aspx?objectId=1147134&partId=1&searchText=C+Calpurnius+Piso&orig=/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/russian_icons/catalogue_of_russian_icons.aspx&sortBy=catNumber&numPages=12&currentPage=9&catalogueOnly=True&catparentPageId=29126&output=bibliography/!!/OR/!!/6738/!//!/A+catalogue+of+the+Roman+Republican+Coins+in+the+British+Museum,+with+descriptions+and+chronology+based+on+M.H.+Crawford,+Roman+Republican+Coinage+(1974)/!//!!//!!!/&queryAll=People/!!/OR/!!/156141/!/156141-4-3/!/Moneyer+C+Calpurnius+Piso+Frugi/!//!!//!!!/&allCurrentPage=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/search_results.aspx?objectId=1147134&partId=1&searchText=C+Calpurnius+Piso&orig=/research/publications/online_research_catalogues/russian_icons/catalogue_of_russian_icons.aspx&sortBy=catNumber&numPages=12&currentPage=9&catalogueOnly=True&catparentPageId=29126&output=bibliography/!!/OR/!!/6738/!//!/A+catalogue+of+the+Roman+Republican+Coins+in+the+British+Museum,+with+descriptions+and+chronology+based+on+M.H.+Crawford,+Roman+Republican+Coinage+(1974)/!//!!//!!!/&queryAll=People/!!/OR/!!/156141/!/156141-4-3/!/Moneyer+C+Calpurnius+Piso+Frugi/!//!!//!!!/&allCurrentPage=1</a>[/QUOTE]

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