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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1664661, member: 19463&quot;]The coin is a denarius issued by Gnaius Gellius c.138BC showing a head of Roma in a wreath on the obverse with denomination mark X (for denarius= 10 asses).&nbsp; The reverse legend reads CN GEL / ROMA and shows Mars abducting Nerio a goddess of Sabine origin and probably was chosen by the moneyer since his family was of Samnite origin.&nbsp; It is believed that this moneyer may be the same man who later wrote a history of Rome (now lost, I believe).</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus_Gellius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus_Gellius" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus_Gellius</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I am going to the show Saturday and would have seriously considered buying this coin had you left it for me.&nbsp; My only concern about the coin is the speckling on the reverse which I would want to examine under magnification and would expect the coin to have been priced down accordingly.&nbsp; I&#039;ll guess I&#039;d pay around $80-100 but would need to examine the coin before really being able to say that.&nbsp; This one has a small flan and loses a lot of the obverse wreath which distinguishes the type from being just another Roma/Chariot coin of which there are so many.&nbsp; The small flan also cuts into the two heads in the chariot which again would be nice to have clearly on the flan.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerio" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerio" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerio</a></p><p><br /></p><p>According to what I see, the coin is not the most common but also not really a rare one.&nbsp; Compare:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=nerio&amp;view_mode=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ol=1&amp;sort=&amp;c=&amp;a=&amp;l=#2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=nerio&amp;view_mode=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ol=1&amp;sort=&amp;c=&amp;a=&amp;l=#2" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=nerio&amp;view_mode=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ol=1&amp;sort=&amp;c=&amp;a=&amp;l=#2</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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