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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2814148, member: 74282&quot;]The Denver ANA show today turned out great. I had a chance to meet [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] as well as several dealers and of course got to see some great coins. My budget is a bit tighter than I&#039;d like it to be as I&#039;m saving up to make a downpayment on a vehicle soon and trying to siphon off a bit of money each month so I&#039;ll have a nice &quot;war chest&quot; for NYINC in January but I did manage to pick up two coins. I&#039;m only sharing one at the moment because I still have some research to do on my other pickup.</p><p><br /></p><p>I picked up this semis from Michael Bezayiff. I have not purchased from this dealer before and as far as I can tell he doesn&#039;t have an online presence which is unfortunate but he had a nice selection of coins in my price range and this semis, his only RR bronze as I recall, immediately stood out to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>This type was not fully identified by Crawford but is related by style, most notably the wide, staring bug-eyed look, to the Crawford 106 &quot;staff and club&quot; issues minted at a Central Italian mint that was probably somewhere in Etruria. Unlike the &quot;staff and club&quot; issues however, the staff is not in the usual position directly below the &quot;S&quot; on the reverse but instead has either been omitted or the line to the left of the deckhouse(the box below the &quot;S&quot;) may represent the missing staff. While it may represent the missing staff, many RR bronzes have this line to the left of the deckhouse so I am not convinced that it represents a staff, but it is a common interpretation.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]659248[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic Æ Semis(20.63g, 29mm). Anonymous(Uninscribed &quot;staff and club&quot; series), 209-208 BC, Central Italian(Etrurian?) mint. Laureate head of Saturn right, S behind/Prow of galley right; above, S; below, ROMA. McCabe group E1; Cf. Crawford 106/5</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, this seller had some really cool looking tags which I&#039;m always a fan of. Click the thumbnail if you want to take a look.</p><p>[ATTACH]659250[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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