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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3051770, member: 74282&quot;]A very interesting addition to your article [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an interesting issue that has similarly confusing dating. This triens weighs 5.75 grams. The style is quite similar to Crawford 56 issues minted in Rome near the end of the Second Punic War but the weight standard is around half the weight standard of those issues. Some have assumed these issues to have been minted much later, close to the time of the Social war but McCabe has convincingly argued, based on the stylistic similarities with contemporary Rome mint issues and the fact that some of these show clear evidence of overstriking on Sardo-Punic, Southern Italian and Sicilian issues that these are, in fact, late Second Punic War issues overstruck on captured booty. These generally show little wear, suggesting they didn&#039;t circulate much. Perhaps they were simply camp money or alternatively, were meant to help drive the adoption of a Roman system in territories that had an existing system based on a completely different weight standard. A very interesting phenomenon regardless of where the true answer lies.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]763821[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic Æ Triens(20.5mm, 5.75g), anonymous, after 211 BC, Sardinian, Sicilian or Southern Italian mint. Helmeted head of Minerva right; above, four pellets / Prow right with flat-topped deck structure; above, ROMA; below, four pellets. cf. Crawford 56/4; McCabe group H1(halfweight overstrikes); Russo RBW 207-208.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex Vecchi 3, 1996, lot 124, Fallani collection[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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