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Message:: [QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 2274967, member: 75525"]I have been interested in how experts date Roman Republican coins since I decided to focus my efforts on this series. There are no mint records from the time, and the coins are not easy to order by date or mint location. The British Museum has an extensive collection and from 1859 to 1869 Count de Salis worked to order the collection. In 1910 H A Grueber published "The Coins of the Roman Republic in the British Museum." He assigned the three coins below to the same time period, 99 to 95 BC. By the time E A Sydenham's "The Coinage of the Roman Republic" was published in 1952 the date range was changed to 125 to 120 BC. M H Crawford, " Roman Republican Coinage" dated the coins of L. Postumius Albinus and Marcus Opeimius in 131 BC and Marcus Metellus he dated 127 BC. Some parts of Crawford's dating have changed, but the RBW collection catalogue did not change these dates.I received the top two in the mail today. The bottom coin arrived a couple of months ago. Most folks do not consider the portraits of Roma to be flattering, I agree. I asked a non collector today if she thought the obverse person was male or female. She guessed wrong. I will revise this post to include attributions later. [ATTACH=full]453773[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]453774[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]