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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24746016, member: 26430&quot;]That&#039;s a great score!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve got exactly one denarius brockage, a Republican:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582961[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><b>Roman Republic. L. Thorius Balbus, c. 105 BC. AR Denarius</b> (19 mm, 3.87 g, 12 h).</p><p><b>Obv:</b> I•S•M•R Head of Juno Sospita to right, wearing goat-skin headdress. <b>Rev.</b> Incuse of obverse.</p><p><b>Refs:</b> Cf. Babelon (Thoria) 1, Crawford 316/1, RBW 1168 and Sydenham 598.</p><p><b>Prov: </b>Ex Colleción Alba Longa (J. F. Molina), vol. II, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6486578" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6486578" rel="nofollow">Aureo y Calicó 339 (14 Nov 2019), Lot 1398</a>; Aureo 89 (4 Mar 1998), Lot 1345; ANE-Calicó (15 Dec 1981), Lot 508. Images of this coin included twice in <a href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_misc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_misc" rel="nofollow">ANS RRDP &quot;Schaefer Binder&quot; No. 22, p. 2</a> (1981 &amp; 1998 sales).</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few Late Roman Bronze brockages, including (to the extent that it counts) this tiny British imitation of Constantine.</p><p><br /></p><p>At 10mm, 0.43g, this one is notable for being the smallest and lightest brockage I can find any record of for the Roman Imperial period. There are occasional Byzantine-era Trachy brockages in this weight range (Latin type trachy mostly):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582963[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><b>Roman Britain (Roman Imperial, “Barbarous” Contemporary Imitative). Constantinian (?) AE Minimus</b> (10mm, 0.43g, 12h), obverse brockage, c. 330-340s (?).</p><p><b>Obv</b>: Pearl-diademed, cuirassed bust right.</p><p><b>Rev</b>: Incuse image of obv.</p><p><b>Ref</b>: Cf. Bishops Canning 392, Chapmanslade 699, Maidenhatch 69-71 for imitations of Trier &amp; Lugdunum mint GLORIA EXERCITVS types.</p><p><b>Prov</b>: Ex Martin Wettmark Collection (acq. eBay USA, April 2017; <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10045274" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10045274" rel="nofollow">CNG EA 525 [19 Oct 2022], 1835</a>).</p><p><b>Notes</b>: Very small coin even for a British imitative, but not unheard of (judging from the 877 imitations in the Chapmanslade hoard, perhaps 1 or 2% this small). Roughly comparable in style &amp; fabric to the Trier/Lugdunum imitations found in the 1993 Chapmanslade Hoard &amp; 1989 Nether Compton (Dorset) Hoard (deposited 339 CE).</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I only recall finding one brockage by chance in a group lot -- well, actually a &quot;<i>partial </i>brockage.&quot; The struck coin wasn&#039;t stuck in the upper die, as on a full brockage, but was lying partially under the blank flan (partly covering the obv. die below), so the inverse of the reverse was partially impressed on the obverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582968[/ATTACH]</p><p>Like this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582969[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><b>Roman Imperial. Gallienus AE Antoninianus</b> (3.49g, 20-22mm, 6h), Antioch, c. 267-268 CE.</p><p><b>Obv</b>: GALLIENVS AVG. Radiate, cuirassed bust right. (Partial incuse of rev. visible: &quot;S&quot; and head and shield of Virtus.)</p><p><b>Rev</b>: VIRTVS AVG. Mars standing forward, head to right, holding spear &amp; shield in his left.</p><p><b>Ref</b>: RIC 669 or similar.</p><p><b>Prov</b>: Group lot.</p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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