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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 4550191, member: 74282&quot;]These were all unpublished when I purchased them but are no longer. I have a few others completely unpublished but you will have to wait for those. I suggest if you think you have an unpublished coin, talk to the people who would be researching those types and varieties and either publish it yourself or provide them with the necessary information(provenance, metrics, photos, etc.). Alternatively, you might find out your unpublished coin isn&#039;t completely unpublished, and that&#039;s good too.</p><p><br /></p><p>A variety of the Q victoriatus with Q on shield and in field. Not in Crawford or any of the major published RR collections</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126396[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic AR Victoriatus(2.87g, 16mm, 2h), &quot;Q&quot; series. 209-208 B.C., Apulian(Luceria?) mint. Laureate head of Jupiter right. Border of dots / Victory standing right, crowning trophy with wreath; on trophy shield, Q; Q between. ROMA in exergue. Line border. Crawford 102/1 var(style &amp; Q on shield). Cf. &quot;A Large Hoard of Roman Republican Victoriati&quot;, Pierluigi Debernardi and Steve Brinkman, NC 2019(173) for discussion of &quot;102Q&quot; variety.</p><p>Purchased via eBay auction, 26 August 2019, ex Diana Numismatica, Rome, Italy and reportedly ex private Italian collection circa 2012</p><p><br /></p><p>A new legend variety of the as of L Calpurnius Piso Frugi which reads FRVGF below the prow. One other example known in the ANS which was not previously described as a variety until I purchased this one and then realized theirs was a die match, thus confirming that it was part of the die and not the result of tooling or corrosion</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126398[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic Æ as(29mm, 11.87 g, 4h). L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi, moneyer, 90 B.C. Rome mint. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I above / Prow of galley right, on which stands Victory; above, L PISO; below, FRVGF. Crawford 340/4 var(FRVGF reverse legend); Sydenham 677 var; BMCRR Rome 2179-2185 var; Russo RBW 1270 var.</p><p>Ex RBW Collection, purchased from V. C. Vecchi, 11/30/1985</p><p><br /></p><p>A solid silver example of a denarius of M Aemilius Scaurus and P Plautius Hypsaeus combining the obverse of Cr. 422/1a(AED CVR in exergue and no REX ARETAS) and the reverse of Cr. 422/1b(scorpion below horses). Babelon published this variety over 100 years ago but was only able to illustrate it with plated examples, which lead to it being considered unofficial and as such was rejected from the standard works including Crawford. Richard Schaefer and I, in &quot;A Doubted Variety of M Aemilius Scaurus and P Plautius Hypsaeus Vindicated&quot;(Koinon I, 2018), argued that this was indeed an official variety, evidenced by the fact this coin is good silver(SG=10.41), that a few other examples we discovered in the sales record <i>appear </i>to have reasonable weights and no signs of plating, and that we were able to find die links between these examples and normal examples of Cr. 422/1a and 422/1b. We believe these good silver examples were created during the short transition period to the new dies.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126397[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic AR denarius(3.80g, 18.31mm). M. Aemilius Scaurus and P. Plautius Hypsaeus, 58 BC, Rome mint. Camel right; before, kneeling figure, holding reins in left hand and olive-branch tied with fillet in right hand; above, M SCAVR; on either side, EX SC; below, AED CVR. Border of dots / Jupiter in quadriga left, holding reins in left hand and hurling thunderbolt with right hand, ; above, P HVPSAEVS; AED CVR in two lines. Below, C HVPSAE COS; PREIVER in two lines. On right, CAPTVM upwards. Border of dots. Crawford 422/1-(obverse 422/1a, reverse 422/1b), cf. Bahrfeldt, Nachtrage i, pl. I, 9[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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