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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 7303567, member: 86498&quot;]Anonymous Ar Quinarius 214-213 BC Rome Obv. Helmeted head of Roma right Rv. The Dioscuri galloping right spears couched under their arms. Crawford 44/6 RBW 175 2.16 grms 14 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1277219[/ATTACH] When I started collecting&nbsp; ancient coins the denarius coinage was thought to have commenced circa 187 BC. Scholarship has changed quite a bit since then and now the current thinking is somewhere around 214 BC. This made the coinage far more interesting to me as now I can assume that this coin was minted during the titanic struggle with Hannibal. However, as much as I like the new chronology I have to remind myself that some of what we &quot;know&quot; about ancient coins is based on information that is about as solid a base of information as a big bowl of Jell-O.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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