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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24848126, member: 26430&quot;]Beautiful example! I really like AE Quadrans. I&#039;d love to have one of these Caligula&#039;s that nice!</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>Note: Your coin previously sold <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9804198" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9804198" rel="nofollow">at CNG e auction 522</a> a little over a year ago. It&#039;s very hard to find them in this fine state of preservation.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>FWIW, the usual explanation of this type is that the Pileus (which represents Libertas) is meant to be symbolic of freedom / liberation from the tax you mentioned. It&#039;s supposed to have been a deliberate &amp; recognizable homage to the EID MAR type and, more generally, the use of Libertas&#039; symbols to represent &quot;liberation&quot; from the prior laws and taxes, or previous tyrannical rulers (used that way later, not this time), and so on.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>A couple mine that I haven&#039;t shared (recently):</b></p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Claudius Quadrans, c. 41 CE. Modius obverse</b></i>. </p><p>Possibly imitative/struck at an &quot;irregular mint&quot; in Spain (?) (see also <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11430894" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11430894" rel="nofollow">this HJB specimen</a> with unusual reverse legend arrangement):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592318[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Early Augustus Quadrans. Altar type, 5 BCE. </i></b></p><p>Ex Archer Huntington (1870-1955) Collection. Donated to the Hispanic Society of America in 1940s, on long-term loan to the American Numismatic Society (Accession #1001.1.10488, w/ the peach-colored museum tag). De-accessioned and sold around 2012, donated back to ANS...and sold again!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592319[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Domitian Quadrans. Rhinoceros. Struck 84/5 CE</i></b>.</p><p>Unfortunately the rhino&#039;s horn is off the flan to left. But I still like this one. My only rhinoceros coin, I think:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1592320[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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