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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2418668, member: 74282&quot;]I recently purchased the following victoriatus from FORVM after having it in my wishlist for a month or so and having looked at it more times than I can count. This is actually third one in my collection(you can see the other two <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cliod-again-anonymous-victoriatus-spearhead.278556/#post-2418597" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/cliod-again-anonymous-victoriatus-spearhead.278556/#post-2418597">here</a>). Because these were struck at various military mints as well as the official Roman mint, many hands carved these dies and as a result, the styles vary considerably from series to series, so much so that in some cases there are &quot;fully anonymous&quot; varieties without symbols or monograms but which are clearly linked to series with symbols by their style. On the coin below you can see that Victory has a disproportionately large head, and if you compare to the coins linked above you can see that Jupiter has a completely different style as well. Unfortunately, these stylistic variations aren&#039;t similar enough to any other series to draw any conclusions about the mint, but these sorts of things are what make the Victoriatus denomination so interesting to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]500796[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic AR Victoriatus(17 mm, 2.54g, 9h). Anonymous(&quot;MP&quot; series). ca. 211-208 B.C. Uncertain mint(traditionally, Metapontum). Laureate head of Jupiter right. Border of dots / Victory standing right, crowning trophy with wreath; MP ligate on exergue between. ROMA in exergue. Line border. Crawford 93/1a; Sydenham 111; RBW 387; RSC 36h; BMCRR Italy 246.</p><p>Ex. Andrew McCabe Collection, Ex. CNG E-Auction 273, Lot 319</p><p><br /></p><p>Please feel free to share anything similar![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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