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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2469548, member: 42773&quot;]16.9g</p><p><br /></p><p>Bing, here&#039;s a coin up your alley. I only bought two RR&#039;s yesterday, this denarius and an uncia. This is L. Titurius L.f. Sabinus. For those of you unfamiliar with the type, the bust is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Tatius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titus_Tatius" rel="nofollow">Titus Tatius</a>, and the reverse shows the killing of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpeia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpeia" rel="nofollow">Tarpeia</a> - a coin dripping with ancient Roman legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>So we&#039;ve had the discussion of off-center strikes before - what is acceptable and what isn&#039;t, according to one collector or another. In the case of this coin, I answered that question with a <i><b>yes please</b></i>. For starters, the flan is oval and the obverse is struck too low, but the bust is full, and we can see how much room the die had around the dotted border - it created a lip at the top of the coin. The reverse is also struck too low, but what that means is that we are missing the inscription L TITVRI in exergue, but the scene itself is perfectly centered.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it&#039;s not the $200 version of the coin, but it had sufficiently enough character and quality to pique my interest. Looking at a dozen of so of these, it seems the flans were always too small for the dies, so you&#039;re always going to sacrifice something...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]519112[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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