Howdy all, I acquired this RR at the FUN show this past Friday. It's very worn I can see some tooling on the obverse and you can juust make out the prow on the reverse in good light. I got this with a drachm (I'll post it later) for $25. Enjoy! Roman Republic 211-207 B.C. (if I'm missing any info please tell) AE Quadrans, 24mm (no weight yet) Obv: Head of Hercules right wearing lion skin, three pellets Rev: Prow of ship Please feel free to post your RR quadrans or anything related!
This is an example I picked up late last year.....the weight is 3.86 grams for a 19.8 mm coin and the references are: Crawford 56/5; Sydenham 143c of uncertain mint (moneyer Anonymous)..and was struck sometime AFTER 211 BC.
That's not a bad budget quadrans. It's too far gone for me to give you any more of an ID unfortunately. I only have a single quadrans, from the "CN GEL" series, thought to have been minted under a Cnaeus Gellius, possibly the same Cn. Gellius who wrote a history of Rome cited by various later historians. It is fairly rough as almost every one of this moneyer's quadrantes seem to be, but has a nice obverse and an OK reverse. Roman Republic Æ quadrans(18.3 mm, 6.16 g, 11 h). Cnaeus Gellius, moneyer, 138 B.C. Rome mint. Head of young Hercules right, wearing lion's skin headdress, three pellets behind / CN·GEL, prow of galley right, three pellets below. ROMA below. Crawford 232/4; Sydenham 435b. Ex. RBW Collection, Ex. Goodman Collection(Privately purchased by RBW in 1996)
Aidan, congrats on your new OP-addition ... I love the coin-type => here is my sweet example ... Anonymous AE20 quadrans 128 BC Diameter: 20.2 mm Weight: 4.29 grams Obverse: Head of Hercules right, wearing lion’s skin; behind, three pellets Reverse: Prow of galley right; above, elephant’s head right; before, three pellet; below, ROMA Reference: Crawford 262/4; Sydenham 497b; Caecilia 41
I don't see any tooling on that coin, Aidan. Probably someone cleaned away a bunch of dirt from the around the bust with a dremel tool to uncover the shape, and it left some cleaning marks. In my book, bad tooling adds detail to the coin that never existed. That's not the case here.
