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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2984478, member: 74282&quot;]One of the coins on my bid list in CNG e-auction 364 of the RBW Collection in December 2015 was one of the most dramatic overstrikes I&#039;d ever seen: a Roman Republic CA series triens overstruck on a Zeus/Man Faced Bull issue of Oiniadai, Akarnania. There were a lot of great coins in that auction and my budget was completely spent by the time that awesome triens came up but I was excited to see later that day <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-is-that-thomas-the-train-or-is-that-a-killer-overstrike.271414/#post-2285976" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-is-that-thomas-the-train-or-is-that-a-killer-overstrike.271414/#post-2285976">that @Stevex6 had picked it up</a> and I hoped that when his collection eventually went up for sale or auction I&#039;d have a second chance at it. When I finally pulled the trigger on it a week or so ago, on one hand I was thrilled to have finally added the exact coin to my collection that I&#039;d had my eye on but it was also bittersweet as I never expected that the day Steve&#039;s collection would go up for sale would be so soon and under the present circumstances. Hopefully if nothing else, the money can help him and his family in their time of need.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coin itself, this triens comes from the &quot;CA&quot; series, thought to have been struck at Canusium(<a href="https://brooklynsabbatical.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/the-adventures-of-laevinus/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://brooklynsabbatical.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/the-adventures-of-laevinus/" rel="nofollow">or maybe not</a>) circa 209-195 B.C.. All of the trientes of this series seem to show signs of overstriking, most commonly on coins of Zeus/Acheloüs(the man-faced bull river god) bronzes of Oiniadai or on Athena/Acheloüs bronzes of the Akarnanian League. These bronzes were likely captured during the raids of Marcus Valerius Laevinus on the Greek coast during the First Macedonian War which took place right smack-dab in the middle of the Second Punic War. While this particular triens is actually relatively common, most were overstruck so haphazardly that it made a mess of both the Roman type and the overstruck type(like this coin), so finding one like this where both the Roman devices and the devices of the undertype are so bold is a real treat.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]734781[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic Æ Triens(20mm, 5.88g, 12h), anonymous(&quot;CA&quot; series), 209-195 B.C., Canusium(?) mint. Helmeted head of Minerva right; above, •••• / Prow right; above, ROMA; below, ••••; to right, CA. Crawford 100/3; Sydenham 309c</p><p>Overstruck on Oiniadai, Akarnania Zeus/Acheloüs, cf. BCD Akarnania 345-348 for undertype. For CA triens overstruck on Oiniadai cf. Hersh NC 1953, 14, cf. Crawford Table XVIII, 91</p><p>Ex [USER=44183]@stevex6[/USER] Collection via coin.ages, eBay, January 27 2018, ex RBW Collection, CNG e-auction 364, December 2 2015, lot 90, ex Stacks Coin Galleries, August 20 1986, lot 117, ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection, Stacks May 4 1978, lot 90</p><p><br /></p><p>If you need any help seeing the overstrike, check out the comparison image below. Both images copyright Classical Numismatic Group.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]734814[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This time, post your ex [USER=44183]@stevex6[/USER] coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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