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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4519949, member: 110350&quot;]Great coins, [USER=81093]@AussieCollector[/USER] !&nbsp; If you look around on this forum, you&#039;ll see that I love Republican coins (at least the silver denarii; I don&#039;t have any Republican bronzes at this point) as much as anyone. Here&#039;s my example of an L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi denarius:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi, AR Denarius, 90 BCE. Obv. Head of Apollo R. (Control marks H, F) / Rev. Horseman galloping R. w/palm frond (control marks G, H), L. PISO FRUGI.&nbsp; RSC I Calpurnia 11, Crawford 340/1, Sydenham 663-670, Sear RCV I 235/1, BMCRR 1938-2129. 17 mm., 4.02 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1119733[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As you may know, this coin, celebrating the Ludi Apollinares, was probably the largest of all Republican issues, with 864 different known obverse dies and 1,080 known different reverse dies, according to Crawford.&nbsp; I find it interesting that although there are four main reverse types listed in the catalogs -- horseman right with palm frond, horseman right with whip, horseman left with palm frond, and horseman left with whip -- the first type comprises &gt; 90% of the examples I&#039;ve seen for sale, with the rest being the right-facing horseman with whip type.&nbsp; I have never noticed a left-facing horseman of either type for sale.&nbsp; (Does anyone here have one?)</p><p><br /></p><p>And then the moneyer&#039;s son, Calpurnius Piso L.f. Frugi, came out with his own extremely similar issue in 67 BCE (Crawford 408), with a couple of hundred different obverse and reverse dies each.</p><p><br /></p><p>But despite the frequency with which one encounters this design, it&#039;s still one of my favorites!</p><p><br /></p><p>For my own new example of, and notes on, the L. Censorinus Apollo/Marsyas denarius posted by [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER], see my post at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republic-denarii-with-reverses-showing-animals-other-than-horses.354471/page-4#post-4513064" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republic-denarii-with-reverses-showing-animals-other-than-horses.354471/page-4#post-4513064">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/roman-republic-denarii-with-reverses-showing-animals-other-than-horses.354471/page-4#post-4513064</a> from earlier this week.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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