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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2663314, member: 75525&quot;]I picked up a few coins today and could not wait to post something. </p><p><br /></p><p>Post your over-strikes or something like the over or under types.</p><p><br /></p><p>A longer version is here - <a href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]591386[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]591387[/ATTACH] </p><p>This one is a RR Sextans, Corn Ear/KA, over a Syracuse Poseidone / Tridente bronze. It is not the first one like this I have. It does look to have an added feature, the two &quot;extra&quot; dots on the obverse. The top coin reverse looks pretty well struck. The obverse looks lightly struck. </p><p>Repubblica Romana - Serie &#039;spiga di grano e KA&#039;. ca 207-206 a.C. Sestante. Ribattuto. AE.</p><p>D/ Poseidone - Mercurio e ulteriore ribattitura da identificare.</p><p>R/ Tridente - Prua a destra sopra spiga di grano, davanti KA. Sotto ROMA.</p><p>Syd. 310d.</p><p>Cr. 69/6b</p><p>Crawford assigns letters by what is before the prow:</p><p>·&nbsp; KA = a, see below</p><p>·&nbsp; IC = b, see above</p><p>·&nbsp; C = c</p><p>Peso gr 8,63. Diametro mm. 22,5. BB-BB+.</p><p>Interessanti ribattiture. Buon esemplare per la tipologia. Patina verde.</p><p><br /></p><p>The under-type, not mine. </p><p>[ATTACH]591392[/ATTACH]&nbsp; coin by Art Coins Roma.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The over type, mine.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]591393[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republican struck Sextans</p><p>Corn-ear and KA series Sextans circa Sicily circa 207-206</p><p>Obv - Head of Mercury right; above, two pellets.</p><p>Rev - Prow right; above, corn- ear and before, KA ligate. Below, ROMA.</p><p>Crawford 69/6a.</p><p>Sydenham 310d.</p><p>Black patina, flan crack otherwise very fine; Æ 20mm., 4.38g; Ex I. Vecchi sale 3, 1996, #180</p><p><br /></p><p>An example of one with the sides flipped, mine. (You can tell by the blue tint in the pic. There is no truth to the rumor that my &quot;new&quot; camera is in the shop because I was not happy with pic quality.)</p><p>The coin flip calls this one a quadrans, Cr 69/5. But... the Cr 69/5 is a Hercules / Charging Bull design. The Cr 69/6 is a Mercury / Prow R design and that is my best guess too.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]591396[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH]591397[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]591398[/ATTACH]&nbsp; Why is this pic blue??? It was not in the view finder. Grrr.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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