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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24880106, member: 26430&quot;]Interesting period of Roman history -- and very interesting period of Roman coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>I notice especially the top OP coin (Crawford <i>RRC</i> 56/7 type).... In October I bought a similar one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1597454[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p>Ex RBW Collection (unpublished duplicate; Richard Witschonke [1945-2015]),</p><p>Ex Richard Schaefer (1946-) Collection (duplicate; AKA “Goodman Collection”).</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I became very curious about these particular types after reading Andrew McCabe&#039;s (2013) important essay on &quot;The Anonymous Struck Bronze Coinage of the Roman Republic,&quot; published in <i>Essays Russo</i>, but <a href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" rel="nofollow">available here from McCabe&#039;s Academia page</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Still just beginning to digest McCabe&#039;s new arrangement, I added a second one a month later (this one a Crawford <i>RRC</i> 56/5 type Sextans):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1597456[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p>Ex Dr. Jay M. Galst (1950-2020) Collection;</p><p>Ex RBW Collection (unpublished duplicate; Richard Witschonke [1945-2015]).</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Although both of our first coins shown are technically RRC 56/7&#039;s, I understand that the early struck bronze coinage may be much more complicated than Crawford realized:</p><p><br /></p><p>I am a total beginner to Roman Republican struck bronzes, so I can&#039;t pretend to know exactly where either of our coins fit into his arrangement, but Andrew McCabe gave them a thorough reclassification (and many other types from 215 BCE onward: the series RRC 38 [incl. the 2nd OP Uncia &amp; [USER=44132]@Bing[/USER] &#039;s], 41, 56, 197-198B, 272, and 339 series).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my copy of that volume. If you look closely at the dedication page, you&#039;ll see why I also had to have the second coin. I felt I had to reunite them! (The book is ex library of Jay Galst, inscribed to him by Rick Witschonke [&quot;RBW&quot;], and also by Peter van Alfen; the coin is also ex Jay Galst Collection, and previously from the RBW Collection, with both of their tags/envelopes.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1597455[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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