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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2278897, member: 72818&quot;]The more I examined this denarius, the more I just had to have it!! The strike and devices too irresistible for me to ignore....</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s another example from the McCabe Collection and it&#039;s noted: &quot;Crawford suggests this and other &#039;anonymous&#039; types struck in this period and marked to indicate they were made from public money (EX AR or EX Argento Publico), may have been struck using silver bequeathed to the Roman people by Ptolemy X Alexander of Egypt.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Silver anonymous denarius, 3.38 grams, 18.4 mm; struck 85 BC;</p><p>Crawford 353/2, Sydenham 726, Fonteia 12 BMCRR I Rome, SRCV I 273.</p><p><br /></p><p>Laureate head of Vejovis right, thunderbolt below, EX A P downward behind.</p><p>Cupid seated on goat, flanked by caps of the Dioscuri, thyrsus of Bacchus in ex. all within laurel wreath.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]455158[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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