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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4509579, member: 57495"]Very interesting Grand Tour piece! Excellent Paullus as well... that was a type on my want list for some time, and I finally managed to acquire one I liked late last year. I was mostly attracted to the style and detail on the reverse, but a bonus was the rare PAVLLS legend variant/error that was went overlooked by the auction cataloger. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1117688[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>ROMAN REPUBLIC</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 3.96g, 18.9mm. Rome mint, 62 BC. L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, moneyer. Crawford 415/1. O: PAVLLS (sic) LEPIDVS CONCORDIA, diademed and veiled bust of Concordia right. R: TER / PAVLLVS, Trophy; to right, L. Aemilius Paullus in toga standing left; to left, three captives (King Perseus of Macedon and his two sons).</p><p>Notes: Rare variant, with Paullus’s name on the obverse spelled PAVLLS instead of PAVLLVS. Crawford notes this error on only 1 obverse die out of 240 he recorded for the issue. The reverse die is notable for the unusually detailed rendering of the type's scene, with even the ties of the bindings around Perseus's wrists clearly visible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's an ex RBW that was unsold in NAC 63. I picked it up in a CNG sale a few years later. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1117689[/ATTACH]<b>ROMAN REPUBLIC</b></p><p>AR Denarius. 3.75g, 18.3mm, Rome mint, 89 BC. Crawford 344/2c; Sydenham 699a; RBW 1302 (this coin); Tituria 5. O: SABIN behind, head of King Tatius right, A PV before; palm frond below chin. R: L TITVRI, Tarpeia buried to her waist in shields, fending off two soldiers about to throw their shields on her; star-in-crescent above.</p><p><i>Ex RBW Collection (unsold in Numismatica Ars Classica 63, 17 May 2012, lot 78), purchased from CNG, April 1994 </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4509579, member: 57495"]Very interesting Grand Tour piece! Excellent Paullus as well... that was a type on my want list for some time, and I finally managed to acquire one I liked late last year. I was mostly attracted to the style and detail on the reverse, but a bonus was the rare PAVLLS legend variant/error that was went overlooked by the auction cataloger. [ATTACH=full]1117688[/ATTACH] [B]ROMAN REPUBLIC[/B] AR Denarius. 3.96g, 18.9mm. Rome mint, 62 BC. L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, moneyer. Crawford 415/1. O: PAVLLS (sic) LEPIDVS CONCORDIA, diademed and veiled bust of Concordia right. R: TER / PAVLLVS, Trophy; to right, L. Aemilius Paullus in toga standing left; to left, three captives (King Perseus of Macedon and his two sons). Notes: Rare variant, with Paullus’s name on the obverse spelled PAVLLS instead of PAVLLVS. Crawford notes this error on only 1 obverse die out of 240 he recorded for the issue. The reverse die is notable for the unusually detailed rendering of the type's scene, with even the ties of the bindings around Perseus's wrists clearly visible. Here's an ex RBW that was unsold in NAC 63. I picked it up in a CNG sale a few years later. [ATTACH=full]1117689[/ATTACH][B]ROMAN REPUBLIC[/B] AR Denarius. 3.75g, 18.3mm, Rome mint, 89 BC. Crawford 344/2c; Sydenham 699a; RBW 1302 (this coin); Tituria 5. O: SABIN behind, head of King Tatius right, A PV before; palm frond below chin. R: L TITVRI, Tarpeia buried to her waist in shields, fending off two soldiers about to throw their shields on her; star-in-crescent above. [I]Ex RBW Collection (unsold in Numismatica Ars Classica 63, 17 May 2012, lot 78), purchased from CNG, April 1994 [/I][/QUOTE]
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