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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 7931017, member: 74282&quot;]How about Mercury on a quadrans...</p><p><br /></p><p>Confused? So was the seller, who thought this was a sextans. This might seem like an error at first but you&#039;ll notice 3 dots on both obverse and reverse. While we think of Mercury=sextans and semuncia, Roma=uncia, Hercules=Quadrans, etc, these types were not set in stone at the beginning of the Second Punic War and there was considerable experimentation with coinage during the war, particularly at Luceria which issued a number of types that do not conform to the rules that we normally think of. While Mercury-headed quadrantes are overall relatively rare, there were multiple types and multiple dies that used Mercury as the obverse for the quadrans, so it is certainly a conscious choice, even if strange.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1371347[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic Æ quadrans(27mm, 15.28g), &quot;L&quot; series, after 211 BC, Luceria outstep mint. Head of Mercury right; above, • ••; below, L / prow of galley right; above, ROMA; below, •••. Crawford 97/5c = Crawford 97/13d; McCabe, &quot;The Roman Struck Bronze Coinage of Luceria and Canusium&quot;(forthcoming, presented at ANS Witschonke conference), T2.2a</p><p>Ex Holding History, eBay, 4 September 2021[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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