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<p>[QUOTE="Aleph, post: 5480214, member: 89969"]Titus’ quadrantes are much scarcer than RIC indicates! David, your quadrans is the most common one but still should be rated as scarce I think; the Minerva version RIC 254, also rated as common, is difficult to find and should be rated as rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quadrantes that circulated in Rome never have an imperial portrait on them; those with imperial portrait were intended for circulation else where. Consider the two Trajan quadrantes above with Hercules and Trajans’s portrait. Both are common in the market today. However in King’s study of quadrantes found in the Tiber, many Hercules quadrantes were found and almost none of the Trajan portrait issues were making quite a striking contrast. Indeed, Curtis clay stated in a thread on Forum some years back that the Trajan she wolf quadrans was actually rare prior to the fall of the iron curtain.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really enjoy quadrantes. This was a denomination that did not circulate like other denominations and may have been distributed primarily as largess at events. Rated as one quarter of an as, the quadrans was not given as change (at least not in the Flavian era). More likely it seems, it was a kind of token for things like a small meal on the street or entrance into the baths.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Aleph, post: 5480214, member: 89969"]Titus’ quadrantes are much scarcer than RIC indicates! David, your quadrans is the most common one but still should be rated as scarce I think; the Minerva version RIC 254, also rated as common, is difficult to find and should be rated as rare. Quadrantes that circulated in Rome never have an imperial portrait on them; those with imperial portrait were intended for circulation else where. Consider the two Trajan quadrantes above with Hercules and Trajans’s portrait. Both are common in the market today. However in King’s study of quadrantes found in the Tiber, many Hercules quadrantes were found and almost none of the Trajan portrait issues were making quite a striking contrast. Indeed, Curtis clay stated in a thread on Forum some years back that the Trajan she wolf quadrans was actually rare prior to the fall of the iron curtain. I really enjoy quadrantes. This was a denomination that did not circulate like other denominations and may have been distributed primarily as largess at events. Rated as one quarter of an as, the quadrans was not given as change (at least not in the Flavian era). More likely it seems, it was a kind of token for things like a small meal on the street or entrance into the baths.[/QUOTE]
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