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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2944079, member: 74282"]You'll find a bit more information about these interesting overstruck bronzes in Andrew McCabe's paper on anonymous Republican bronzes <a href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" rel="nofollow">here</a>(specifically look at McCabe group H1). These may have been camp money for use by the soldiers or they may have been intended to actually circulate as coinage in place of the coins they were overstruck on but at any rate they almost uniformly show little actual circulation wear, suggesting they weren't used for long. They're certainly an interesting phenomenon.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is my triens from the same group of overstrikes:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]717473[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic Æ Triens(20.5mm, 5.75g), anonymous, after 211 BC, Sardinian, Sicilian or Southern Italian mint. Helmeted head of Minerva right; above, four pellets / Prow right with flat-topped deck structure; above, ROMA; below, four pellets. cf. Crawford 56/4; McCabe group H1(halfweight overstrikes); Russo RBW 207-208.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex Vecchi 3, 1996, lot 124, Fallani collection[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2944079, member: 74282"]You'll find a bit more information about these interesting overstruck bronzes in Andrew McCabe's paper on anonymous Republican bronzes [URL='https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013']here[/URL](specifically look at McCabe group H1). These may have been camp money for use by the soldiers or they may have been intended to actually circulate as coinage in place of the coins they were overstruck on but at any rate they almost uniformly show little actual circulation wear, suggesting they weren't used for long. They're certainly an interesting phenomenon. This is my triens from the same group of overstrikes: [ATTACH=full]717473[/ATTACH] Roman Republic Æ Triens(20.5mm, 5.75g), anonymous, after 211 BC, Sardinian, Sicilian or Southern Italian mint. Helmeted head of Minerva right; above, four pellets / Prow right with flat-topped deck structure; above, ROMA; below, four pellets. cf. Crawford 56/4; McCabe group H1(halfweight overstrikes); Russo RBW 207-208. Ex Vecchi 3, 1996, lot 124, Fallani collection[/QUOTE]
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