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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 4247026, member: 74282&quot;]The style isn&#039;t correct for a quartuncia. This looks like a later coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think last time Doug shared this coin, the consensus was that it&#039;s an overstrike of some sort, but a double strike is a possibility. The crescent above the head looks like an artifact of an overstrike or doublestrike to me and not anything that was actually in the die. It&#039;s actually hard for me to say with certainty whether it&#039;s an uncia or a triens, as sometimes it&#039;s not obvious when marks of value are not visible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes you find mysterious and hard to identify coins within Roman Republic bronze. I&#039;ve actually got a few in my own collection that I have questions about for various reasons, and a whole lot more I&#039;ve spotted over the years on auction websites and things that left me with questions I couldn&#039;t answer. That&#039;s the fun of it for me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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