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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3173402, member: 74282&quot;]A few weeks ago a fellow collector notified me that a seller on a small ancient coin Facebook group was offering an interesting denarius that might be imitative and that I should take a look. Looking at the coin it was definitely imitative in style but otherwise rather faithful to the <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1995356" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1995356" rel="nofollow">anonymous Roma/Roma seated with she-wolf prototype</a> and even better appeared to be good silver(as opposed to a plated fouree as many off-style denarii are). I found it very interesting so I quickly arranged to purchase it and it arrived last night.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin comes from a category of imitations referred to as &quot;monetary copies&quot; first by Maria Chitescu and later by Phil Davis on his <a href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info" rel="nofollow">website about Imitations of Roman Republic Denarii</a>. These coins faithfully reproduce their prototypes either via transfer dies or well-engraved new dies, though they are not always 100% accurate as can be seen here with the omission of the &quot;R&quot; in &quot;ROMA&quot; on the reverse as well as the missing wings on Roma&#039;s helmet. The official prototype that this coin copies is often badly struck on a tight flan, possibly explaining the missing &quot;R&quot;, and many surviving official examples are missing the wings on the helmet as they seem to disappear with the tiniest amount of wear, so the engraver&#039;s omissions are perhaps not too surprising if the features were also missing on the source coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>While researching this coin and re-reading a bit on this category of imitations I was pleasantly surprised to find not one but two examples from these same dies represented on Phil Davis&#039;s site: the first being <a href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/copies4.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/copies4.html" rel="nofollow">C45+ on his &quot;Monetary Copies&quot; pages</a> and the second being <a href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/RomanianHoard3.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/RomanianHoard3.html" rel="nofollow">one of the coins</a> found as part of a large hoard in Romania in 2001. The dies that the Geto-Dacians used to produce their coins apparently didn&#039;t last long as few die matches are ever found so it is always nice to find a match or two which allows you to better work out what the full die looked like given how often these coins come mis-struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]816073[/ATTACH] </p><p>Imitations of Roman Republic coinage, Geto-Dacians, AR denarius(3.72g, 21mm), after 115/114 B.C.. Imitating anonymous issue of circa 115/114 B.C.. Head of Roma right; behind, X and &quot;OMA&quot;(sic) / Roma seated right on pile of shields, holding spear; birds in flight to upper left and right; to lower right, she-wolf standing right, head left, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus. Cf. Crawford 287/1 for prototype; Davis, website class A, group Ib, Geto-Dacian Monetary Copies, C45(these dies) &amp; Davis &quot;A New Hoard of Denarii Imitations&quot; 20(these dies)</p><p><br /></p><p>As always, feel free to post anything relevant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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