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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4246620, member: 99456&quot;]Thanks for sharing [USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER]&nbsp; - these AEs are interesting to see.&nbsp; Interested in any key reference books, articles, or websites that you like for AEs of the Roman Republic.</p><p><br /></p><p>As much as I like the republican period, the AEs have a price/beauty ratio as well as limited differentiating context, and my own general confusion over weight standards and denominations that have all inhibited me from having more than a few representatives.&nbsp; I have none from the animal series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my favorite:[ATTACH=full]1083892[/ATTACH]</p><p>Anonymous,<b> Quartuncia</b>, Rome, 217-215 BC; AE</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Helmeted head of Roma right.</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Prow right; above, ROMA</p><p><b>Size:</b> 3.22g ; 16.4mm , .</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford 38/8; Sydenham 88</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=79017]@Andres2[/USER] - interested to know how confident are you in quartuncia (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1589404" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1589404" rel="nofollow">38/8</a>?), it&#039;s the weight of 4.26g on Doug&#039;s coin that throws me off.&nbsp; I would have guessed (with almost no confidence) uncia like <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3363978" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3363978" rel="nofollow">56/7</a>, or less likely to me, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=507119" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=507119" rel="nofollow">41/10</a>?</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] is there a depression at back of head on your coin? brockage, bad flan, overstrike?&nbsp; if you wanted to make a lengthy project of this coin - this 2013 <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">paper </a>from [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER] (referenced by [USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER]) could be useful - it investigates Roman Republican anonymous struck bronzes, with prow designs, dating from 215BC and on-wards, organizing into groups and sub-groups, and describing common over-strikes for some issues (see Group H).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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