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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3227525, member: 90666&quot;]Hiya</p><p><br /></p><p>The big Sextans is my group AA. By far the most interesting coin in the group is the massive semis to the right of the large picture. It&#039;s either Crawford 41/6e (very rare, Michael Crawford only knew of a single example) or possibly a very large version of Crawford 106/5 staff and club. They have somewhat similar obverse, and the latter possibility is interesting because I have long suspected that the staff and club series had an early and large-dimension post-semilibral component. If it&#039;s a 41/6e then the relevant reference is Roberto Russo in Essays Hersh, 1998. That includes most of the dies. These types also equate to my group A1 and A2 both have semisses corresponding to 41/6e early and later issues. So if you could flip over the large semis, we can discuss more. I&#039;m away from my books at the moment else I could definitively check the dies. The Pompey as is mercifully untooled. Mostly they have been chopped up to a point of unrecognisability. The Antony denarius is pretty rare of course. The SAX as is much scarcer than the C.SAX as. One can always tell the difference by the deck structure even if you cannot see if there&#039;s a C or not, because SAX has a raised rectangular deck structure but C.SAX has a line with dots. There&#039;s a VAL, an M.ATILI SARAN, a Luceria civic bronze, a Cybele/Horseman Cr.39 uncia, a common but apparently pretty semilibral semuncia, a relatively well preserved Minerva Horsehead bronze, a D SILANVS semuncial as, a wolf and twins as just to the left of the big semis, a corn-ear and KA sextans covering it, a late second century quadrans, possibility Trebanius but could be others, and three coins where I can only see parts of the obverses but am gonna guess that the as at far left is a mid second century issue (Cr.190 to Cr.219) from its pointy tufted bears, the as at left is early second century (Cr.110 to Cr. 170 or thereabouts), then there&#039;s a semis (?) mostly covered at left that I&#039;ve no idea about. Fun group. It would probably interest you that there&#039;s a whole load of interesting bronzes including some wild overstrikes in a group I&#039;ve recently consigned, and I wrote a long note about the overstrikes; I shouldn&#039;t post it here but if you follow the usual breadcrumbs you&#039;ll know where to find it. Very good chance your new corn ear and KA sextans is an overstrike!</p><p><br /></p><p>Andrew[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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