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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2695137, member: 74282&quot;]I&#039;ve posted a few of my &quot;staff&quot; series coins here over the past couple of years but so far all of those have been from the Cr. 106 staff series from Etruria. I recently won a semis from the later Cr. 112 staff series minted in Rome, my first such example from this later series. The technical description of &quot;Saturn/Prow right with staff above&quot; is much the same as the semis of the earlier staff series(with the exception of the placement of the &quot;S&quot; on the reverse) but the style is completely different as evidenced by <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1589474" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1589474" rel="nofollow">this example of the earlier series</a>. There are a few similar examples where either the Rome mint used the same symbol for two different series separated by time or where some field mint used a symbol and then Rome later used a similar one and I&#039;m not quite sure what to make of it. Maybe the moneyer just thought it was a cool symbol or maybe there&#039;s some sort of actual link there, but there&#039;s no real way to say for sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]605353[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic Æ Semis(28mm, 13.88g). Anonymous(Staff series), 206-195 B.C., Rome mint. Laureate head of Saturn right; behind, S/ Prow right; above, staff; before, S; below, ROMA. Crawford 112/4</p><p>Ex RBW Collection, ex Tony Hardy Collection, CNG 61, September 25, 2002, lot 1153</p><p><br /></p><p>Note: I&#039;ve shared the CNG 61 image here as I felt it captured both the detail and the actual color of the coin better than the auctioneer&#039;s. It&#039;s got a lot of green on it and some spots that might normally worry me as a bronze collector but I can happily report that the coin hasn&#039;t changed a bit since this photo was taken over 14 years ago, so I think it is fully stable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share anything relevant![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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