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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2426994, member: 75525&quot;]I received an interesting e-mail on my over strike coin. Clive Stannard noted that many of the under type had chop marks on the obverse. If you look at my coin, it has a facial chop mark that was rubbed out a bit by the next strike. His note is copied below with a link to one of his papers.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]503828[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Hi,</p><p>In saw your very interesting Roman <i>sextans</i> overstrike on Neapolis on Andrew’s blog, and can give you a little more information.</p><p>From the patina of this piece, I have no doubt that it comes from the River Liris at Minturnae. For a discussion of the Liri finds, have a look at my presentation: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/24070903/Cyrenaican_coin_in_central_Italy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/24070903/Cyrenaican_coin_in_central_Italy" rel="nofollow">Cyrenaican coin in central Italy</a>&nbsp; (<a href="https://www.academia.edu/24070903/Cyrenaican_coin_in_central_Italy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/24070903/Cyrenaican_coin_in_central_Italy" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/24070903/Cyrenaican_coin_in_central_Italy</a>). The Neapolitan piece you illustrate is also from the Liri.</p><p>One of these days I am going to do a paper on a strange phenomenon of this Neapolitan issue from the Liri: many of them have a chop, or cut, across the&nbsp; obverse, never the reverse. Your <i>sextans</i> is over a chopped piece. I attach a file with a number of chopped Neapolitan pieces. Yours (which I have included), is the first time I have seen it overstruck.</p><p>We can only guess the reason for overstriking. I don’t think it was to demonetise the coins, and doubt that it was to offer them as a sacrifice. My best guess was that it marked them as acceptable in local commerce at some fixed rate.</p><p>Could you please&nbsp; give me the size and weight of your piece?</p><p>All the best,</p><p>Clive[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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