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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2490002, member: 74282&quot;]The sextans I&#039;m sharing today is from the Crawford 97 &quot;L&quot; series, struck at a Roman mint in Luceria. Crawford identifies a total of 6 groups of bronze &quot;L&quot; series issues, the first as part of the Crawford 43 and the rest as part of Crawford 97, but his classifications largely rely on weight and do not do justice to the many styles and minor variations that exist within this overall series, nor the fact that many coins fall in a weight range that make them very difficult to accurately classify one way or the other. For those interested, Andrew McCabe has a fantastic series of pages on these types and related series <a href="http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/RRC43.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info/RRC43.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>While this particular example has some corrosion, it&#039;s otherwise a rather nice example with a nice and complete prow and most features very clear. Unfortunately I haven&#039;t been able to get a good image of it myself just yet as my SD card seems to have died so dealer&#039;s pic will have to do for now:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]526855[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic Æ Sextans(6.45g), anonymous(&quot;L&quot; series, bronze group 3), 211-208 B.C., Luceria mint. Head of Mercury right; above, •• / Prow right; above, ROMA; below, •L•. Crawford 97/14; Russo RBW 409.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please feel free to share anything related[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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