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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 7839947, member: 74282&quot;]67 B.C. was from Crawford and I think Hersh may have got 63 B.C. from Sydenham but I&#039;m not completely sure. At any rate, much of the dating from this period was revised when the Mesagne Hoard was published by Charles Hersh and Alan Walker in 1984. The Mesagne hoard was a hoard of 5,940 denarii found in the town of Mesagne in Calabria which ends with the securely dated issue of M Scaurus and P Plautius as Curule Aediles in 58 B.C.. Before Mesagne, the hoard evidence for the period roughly between the death of Sulla and Caesar crossing the Rubicon was quite scarce and the hoards that had been used to build the chronology of the period were small and as such, not as reliable since a smaller hoard is less likely to represent all issues in circulation. The issues of this period are also so stylistically diverse that it&#039;s hard to link issues based on style as is possible in some eras.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mesagne caused a number of issues previously thought to be pre-58 B.C. but missing from the hoard, such as that of <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-nine-muses-of-the-greek-mythology.362658/#post-4659818" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-nine-muses-of-the-greek-mythology.362658/#post-4659818">Quintius Pomponius Musa</a>, to get pushed to the post-58 period. Likewise the nearly uncirculated condition of larger numbers of some coins previously thought to have been in circulation for a decade at this point, such as the issue of C Calpurnius Piso Frugi here, required some issues to be moved forward a few years[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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