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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2504291, member: 74282&quot;]I usually don&#039;t have a ton of bidding competition on Republican bronzes, especially lower grade ones, but in today&#039;s Roma auction I was the direct underbidder to the one and only Clio on <a href="http://romanumismatics.com/auction/lot/0343/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://romanumismatics.com/auction/lot/0343/" rel="nofollow">this extremely rare ROMA monogram uncia</a>. Clio actually bought a small run of RR bronzes, all in the last few seconds of each one&#039;s bidding, but luckily his or her siege let up long enough for me to pick up the following &quot;staff and club&quot; series sextans(the staff is the line between the prow and ROMA above) from Etruria, ex Andrew McCabe collection, ex JD collection</p><p><br /></p><p>The staff and club bronzes struck in Etruria during the Second Punic War form one of the most complex bronze issues of the entire Republican series. These coins may have a staff on the reverse, a club on the obverse, or both, and there are some variations that have the staff in other locations. On top of that, there is a fully-anonymous series that has a very similar bug-eyed staring or gazing style and similar style of prow reverse that is almost certainly related but was not included in Crawford. I&#039;m currently gathering images and data in the hopes that I can find some die links that might shed light on the overall organization of these bronzes, but I haven&#039;t found anything substantial just yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]531821[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic Æ Sextans(21mm, 4.99g, 3h), Anonymous(&quot;Staff and club&quot; series), 209-208 BC, Etrurian mint. Head of Mercury right; above, •• / Prow right; above, ROMA and staff; below, ••. Crawford 106/8a; Sydenham -; Russo RBW 487.</p><p>Ex Andrew McCabe collection, ex JD Collection, NAC 78(5/26/2014) lot 1637</p><p><br /></p><p>Thumbnails below are two related &quot;staff and club&quot; trientes in my collection, the first with a staff on the reverse, the second being a very rare triens with a &quot;club&quot;(the sort of dotted line) behind Minerva&#039;s head on the obverse and the usual staff on the reverse:</p><p>[ATTACH]531828[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]531829[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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