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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 3018508, member: 74282"]I am fascinated with these types as well, though my focus is on those minted against Roman Republic prototypes. I've spent the past couple of months tracking down more papers and books describing finds of Roman Republic denarii in Eastern Europe and the more I study these, the more questions I have rather than really feeling like I've learned anything. For one, while there are published hoards from, for instance, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine, only the Hungarian coins of the Eravisci Celts seem possible to really put into any sort of structured catalog(and Torbagyi did a good job of it). These Eravisci coins form a relatively small series of tightly die-linked types, but the dies of the Geto-Dacian denarii and those of other groups are, in many cases, only known from single coins. I have no idea why this is, but it really is maddening. Some believe most of these denarii to be the product of modern forgers, but even if you remove all examples without provenance to a published hoard, it's still quite difficult to find die links, moreso than for instance with official Republican denarii.</p><p><br /></p><p>There's also a question that's been on my mind a lot lately: what is going on with the seemingly-cast Eravisci imitations. Most Eravisci imitations are struck, but a coin in Phil Davis's collection(E15 on <a href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/eraviscan2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/eraviscan2.html" rel="nofollow">this page</a>) has evidence that it is cast. Furthermore, I now know of a second example that appears to be cast, from the Lágymányos hoard, found in modern-day Budapest and originally published by Gohl in 1903 and then re-analyzed and published for the first time with photos of some of the coins in Torbagyi's "Die Münzprägung Der Eravisker" in 1984. I am not aware of any specific gravity testing done on this coin which would conclusively prove it, but the weight is similar to that of other struck solid examples and I see no reason to conclude that these are plated coins so what's going on here? Was this what the Eravisci did to continue making coins after running out of dies? Is it perhaps the product of using the casting process to create a transfer die from an earlier Eravisci coin? I have no idea, but it's fascinating that casting was used to create seemingly solid silver coins for this brief period of time and I hope(though I don't expect) to one day have a more satisfying answer for why.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]749944[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My only two solid silver imitations(though I hope to find more):</p><p>An Eravisci imitation of a Diana/Hound denarius of C. Postumius, from the hoard published by Rob Freeman in Essays Hersh.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]749942[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>An imitation of a denarius of C Calpurnius Piso Frugi, likely Geto-Dacian:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]749943[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 3018508, member: 74282"]I am fascinated with these types as well, though my focus is on those minted against Roman Republic prototypes. I've spent the past couple of months tracking down more papers and books describing finds of Roman Republic denarii in Eastern Europe and the more I study these, the more questions I have rather than really feeling like I've learned anything. For one, while there are published hoards from, for instance, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine, only the Hungarian coins of the Eravisci Celts seem possible to really put into any sort of structured catalog(and Torbagyi did a good job of it). These Eravisci coins form a relatively small series of tightly die-linked types, but the dies of the Geto-Dacian denarii and those of other groups are, in many cases, only known from single coins. I have no idea why this is, but it really is maddening. Some believe most of these denarii to be the product of modern forgers, but even if you remove all examples without provenance to a published hoard, it's still quite difficult to find die links, moreso than for instance with official Republican denarii. There's also a question that's been on my mind a lot lately: what is going on with the seemingly-cast Eravisci imitations. Most Eravisci imitations are struck, but a coin in Phil Davis's collection(E15 on [URL='http://rrimitations.ancients.info/eraviscan2.html']this page[/URL]) has evidence that it is cast. Furthermore, I now know of a second example that appears to be cast, from the Lágymányos hoard, found in modern-day Budapest and originally published by Gohl in 1903 and then re-analyzed and published for the first time with photos of some of the coins in Torbagyi's "Die Münzprägung Der Eravisker" in 1984. I am not aware of any specific gravity testing done on this coin which would conclusively prove it, but the weight is similar to that of other struck solid examples and I see no reason to conclude that these are plated coins so what's going on here? Was this what the Eravisci did to continue making coins after running out of dies? Is it perhaps the product of using the casting process to create a transfer die from an earlier Eravisci coin? I have no idea, but it's fascinating that casting was used to create seemingly solid silver coins for this brief period of time and I hope(though I don't expect) to one day have a more satisfying answer for why. [ATTACH=full]749944[/ATTACH] My only two solid silver imitations(though I hope to find more): An Eravisci imitation of a Diana/Hound denarius of C. Postumius, from the hoard published by Rob Freeman in Essays Hersh. [ATTACH=full]749942[/ATTACH] An imitation of a denarius of C Calpurnius Piso Frugi, likely Geto-Dacian: [ATTACH=full]749943[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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