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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2286075, member: 74282&quot;]Now that I&#039;m home and at my computer, I do have a couple of overstrikes and Minerva-headed trientes but I&#039;ll only share two(only one of which is an overstrike):</p><p><br /></p><p>This first one, I really, really wish I could determine the undertype. It&#039;s a really cool and beautiful coin but it would be so much cooler if I could figure out what it&#039;s overstruck on. This comes from a series of bronzes that were overstruck near the end of the Second Punic War on captured enemy coins at half the weight standard of the same denominations being minted at the Rome mint and the series was not identified by Crawford. Likely the undertype is a Sicilian, Sardinian or Punic bronze, and I&#039;ve spent a lot of time squinting and looking and rotating the coin but I just can&#039;t figure it out.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]457594[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic Æ Triens(20.5mm, 5.75g), anonymous, after 211 BC. Helmeted head of Minerva right; above, four pellets / ROMA. Prow right with flat-topped deck structure; below four pellets. Crawford cf. 56/4. McCabe group H1(halfweight overstrikes). Ex. Vecchi sale 3, 1996</p><p><br /></p><p>This next one is a later Minerva-head triens of a very different style that I just recently purchased. Still waiting for it to ship actually. It was misidentified by the dealer actually, and the actual type is a bit scarcer than the original attribution would suggest(highlighting the importance of paying attention on your attributions). This is one of those bronzes that is so scarce in decent condition that even the RBW example was a fairly ugly one</p><p>[ATTACH=full]457596[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic Æ Triens(21mm, 7.29g), Valerius moneyer, 169-158 BC. Helmeted head of Minerva right; above, four pellets / Prow right with peaked deck structure; VAL monogram above; four pellets before; ROMA below. Crawford 191/3. Sydenham 356b. Babelon Valeria 3[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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