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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3398614, member: 44316&quot;]<font size="4">I used an example of the OP type on my page explaining how Republican coins are dated. </font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/TimelineTable.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/TimelineTable.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/TimelineTable.html</a></font></p><p><font size="4">is a timeline with examples and the associated theory page</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/dating.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/dating.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/dating.html</a></font></p><p><font size="4">has this type as an example of a type which is hard to date. (By the way, Crawford dates this OP type to 134 BC, not 119).</font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]902654[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4">Victory drives the quadriga and wheat ears suggest something to do with the dole. Nevertheless, it is not possible to pin down the occasion for this type.&nbsp; On my page I wrote:</font></p><p><font size="4">&nbsp;</font></p><p><font size="4">There were lots of victories under the Republic and lots of coins with victories on them. The previous coin [see the web page] was dated to make one of each correspond. Similarly, there is more than one time in Republican history when grain prices were high and famine was threatening. Several Republican types that have prominent ears of grain which might refer to grain subsidies.</font></p><p><font size="4">Here is one example: [the above coin] Note the large ears of grain dividing the legend on the reverse. Perhaps that is a modius for storing grain behind the head. Victory (winged) is driving the biga. Is this type associated with an historically attested subsidy? Is it associated with a known victory? Crawford attributes the type to 134 BC and moneyer C. Marcius Mn. F, who is otherwise unknown, but is able to find an ancestor associated with a grain law of hundreds of years before, which is no help whatsoever in dating the coin. It does, however, recall a good deed associated with the family of the moneyer. As far as we know, Republican coins before about 120 BC did not refer to current, or even recent, events.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Dating Republican coins is not at all straightforward. If you want to know how it is done, begin here:</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/TimelineTable.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/TimelineTable.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/TimelineTable.html</a></font></p><p><font size="4">and if you find it interesting and are willing to think hard, continue with the theory here:</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/dating.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/dating.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Repub/dating.html</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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