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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 8289232, member: 44316&quot;]Coins come in a range of denominations, but if the value of a coin you have is too high for the purchase you intend, what can you do? </p><p><br /></p><p>Cut it in half!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have seen halved late Roman AE from Spain. Here is an unusual halved coin from Chios, Ionia, attributed to the second century.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464985[/ATTACH] </p><p>Ionia, Chios.</p><p><b>31 mm</b>. Halved in antiquity.</p><p>Sphinx right</p><p>Time of Trajan or Hadrian (98-138). AE Triassarion.</p><p>Obv: ΤΡΙΑ ΑССΑΡΙΑ [Much of it is off this half flan]. Sphinx seated right, resting forepaw upon prow to right.</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; Asklepios on right [off the flan], leaning upon serpent-entwined staff, and Dionysios, pouring cantharus and holding thyrsus, standing facing; altar between them; star in exergue.</p><p>cf <i>RPC</i> III 1907. The halved coin has far more lettering, so the <i>RPC</i> number is not right. It is much like Hunter 221.6284 which, however, has bad style.</p><p><br /></p><p>Show us a coin halved in antiquity![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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