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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3336481, member: 74282&quot;]These little Minerva/Horsehead bronzes are very interesting. They come in a handful of varieties with different legend variations and the heads on each side facing different directions. Mine is a scarcer right-right variety, whereas the more common varieties have the heads facing opposing directions.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see a handful of different attributions for these coins with various dates and mints cited. The one that I tend to agree with based on the find evidence and similarity to local Civic issues is the attribution to Cosa that Crawford lays out in Coinage and Money in the Roman Republic. Crawford argues that these coins are related to First Punic War fleet building activities, for which Cosa&#039;s harbor would have made it a prime location. Further evidence that these should be assigned to Cosa is that they are typologically and metrologically close to the &quot;COZANO&quot; Mars/Horsehead bronzes which are certainly from Cosa. These are so close in fact that the rare COZANO bronzes have been misattributed as these more common Minerva/Horsehead bronzes in at least two major RR bronze sales(Vecchi 3 &amp; NAC 61).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]883760[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic Æ litra(5.75g, 18mm), anonymous, after 264 B.C., Cosa mint. Helmeted head of minerva right; border of dots / Horse&#039;s head right, on base; behind, ROMA[NO] upwards. Crawford 17/1d; BMCRR Romano-Campanian 12; Sydenham 3a</p><p>Ex Thersites Collection, Roma e-sale 32 lot 662(provenance incorrectly omitted from lot description), ex Andrew McCabe Collection, acquired in 2009.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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