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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2678286, member: 74282&quot;]Most of the coins on my bid list in the most recent Naville auction went a bit(or a lot) higher than I expected, but I was happy to see after the dust settled that I&#039;d won the following lot: a fully anonymous variant of the <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1156641&amp;partId=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1156641&amp;partId=1" rel="nofollow">&quot;C·AL&quot; denarius</a> from a Second Punic War-era Sicilian mint. Crawford argues that there were at least two such mints on Sicily operating in parallel but in a different style as can be seen on <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3332897" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3332897" rel="nofollow">this coin attributed to the other Sicilian mint</a> and both mints issued signed and fully-anonymous types. While both types share the visor style with three parallel lines(which only occurs on Sicilian types), the horn sticking out of the back of the helmet on the other type is an easy way to differentiate the two. Given the amount of fighting that the island of Sicily saw during the war, it&#039;s no real surprise that the Romans likely needed an immense amount of coinage and consequently may have needed multiple mints to keep up with demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]598012[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic AR Denarius(19.5mm., 4.35g), anonymous(related to C·AL series), 209-208 B.C., Sicilian mint. Helmeted head of Roma right with loop beneath visor; behind, X / The Dioscuri galloping right; below, ROMA in linear frame. Crawford 75/1c; Sydenham 191a; Russo RBW 321</p><p><br /></p><p>For anyone interested in reading more about these fully anonymous types I&#039;d like to point out <a href="http://stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/" rel="nofollow">the excellent guide</a> by Steve Brinkman and Pierluigi Debernardi, to whom I owe a great deal of gratitude for providing a lot of great information on these complicated types</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share anything relevant![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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