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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3196278, member: 74282&quot;]I won two fully-anonymous RR coins this month and thought I&#039;d share them in a single post. The first is an anonymous quadrans in the style of the signed Rome mint issues of circa 206-195 B.C. and this coin in particular is a close match for the rare <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4951394" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4951394" rel="nofollow">Crawford 113/196 Star-before series quadrans</a>(see the link for why I see 113/196). This anonymous series was not identified by Crawford but is described in <a href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" rel="nofollow">Andrew McCabe&#039;s paper on anonymous bronzes</a> as Group J1. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of this one before spiriting it away to the bank so I&#039;ve only got dealer pictures to share for now:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]826138[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic Æ Quadrans(24mm, 9.72 g, 9h), anonymous, circa 206-195 B.C.. Rome mint. Head of Hercules right; to left, ••• / Prow right; above, ROMA; below, •••. McCabe Group J1; cf. Crawford 112-124 and 196/4 for signed issues in similar style</p><p>Privately purchased from London Ancient Coins via Vcoins, 9/4/2018.</p><p>Image copyright London Ancient Coins</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My second anonymous purchase this month and perhaps the one I&#039;m most excited about was an eBay purchase from what was apparently some sort of pawn shop and, based on the paper that came with it was apparently some sort of sight-unseen mail order purchase before that. This coin is a Crawford 89/1b victoriatus, a very rare variety related to <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3363988" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3363988" rel="nofollow">the Cr. 89/1a &quot;club&quot; victoriatus</a>, but without the club! If you&#039;re interested, you can read a bit about how to identify this variety in <a href="http://www.stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/AnonymousVictoriatii.html#89-1b" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/AnonymousVictoriatii.html#89-1b" rel="nofollow">this guide to the anonymous victoriati</a> written by Kenneth L. Friedman and Richard Schaefer but the easiest feature to spot is the particular style of the base of the trophy on this issue which takes the form of two dots which appear disconnected from the post. The seller did not identify this as any sort of rare variety and I hoped that it would end up flying under the radar and staying cheap but alas several strong bids came in at the last moment and I probably overpaid for it at almost $200 shipped but when you have to have every variety you do whatever it takes and I wasn&#039;t willing to wait and hope I could find another example.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]826439[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic AR Victoriatus(2.33g, 18mm, 12h). Anonymous(style of &quot;Club&quot; series). ca. 208 B.C. Southeast Italian mint(perhaps Brundisium?). Laureate head of Jupiter right. Border of dots / Victory standing right, crowning trophy with wreath. ROMA in exergue. Line border. Crawford 89/1b</p><p>Purchased from The Coin &amp; Jewelry Exchange, Fort Meyers, Florida via eBay auction, 9/17/2018</p><p><br /></p><p>As promised, the &quot;mail order&quot; ad that came with it and which I assume it was previously purchased from. If you recognize the vendor, please let me know:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]826149[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As always, feel free to share anything relevant![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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