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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4520409, member: 99456"]As a fan of this unsettled time period of social and civil war in the republic, I cannot resist adding another coin. The control marks on the reverse of this issue are continuous in sequence. On my coin, the control mark on the reverse is barely on the flan, but was easily confirmed as CCCLXXVIII (#378) by finding several <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=99764" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=99764" rel="nofollow">die matches</a> in ACSearch. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are two controls on the obverse, a letter behind and a symbol below chin, which is Crawford type 361/1c (the other two options: a == no obverse control, b == only a control letter in front of Apollo). The obverse control mark is a bit interesting - it appears to be a strigilum or bath scraper. A strigilum was important sports equipment for a Roman athlete and a popular S-shaped bathing tool for scraping oils and dirt from the skin. Here's a <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3108735" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3108735" rel="nofollow">strigilum</a> on a quadrans, and <a href="https://hvrd.art/o/304007" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://hvrd.art/o/304007" rel="nofollow">one</a> at the Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge, MA.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1119807[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>P. Crepusius</b>, 82 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Laureate head of Apollo right, scepter over shoulder; T to left, a strigilum (symbol: bath scraper) below chin</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Warrior on horse rearing right, brandishing spear in right hand; CCCLXXVIII behind; P • CREPVSI in exergue</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford 361/1c; Sydenham 738a; Crepusia 1[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4520409, member: 99456"]As a fan of this unsettled time period of social and civil war in the republic, I cannot resist adding another coin. The control marks on the reverse of this issue are continuous in sequence. On my coin, the control mark on the reverse is barely on the flan, but was easily confirmed as CCCLXXVIII (#378) by finding several [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=99764']die matches[/URL] in ACSearch. There are two controls on the obverse, a letter behind and a symbol below chin, which is Crawford type 361/1c (the other two options: a == no obverse control, b == only a control letter in front of Apollo). The obverse control mark is a bit interesting - it appears to be a strigilum or bath scraper. A strigilum was important sports equipment for a Roman athlete and a popular S-shaped bathing tool for scraping oils and dirt from the skin. Here's a [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3108735']strigilum[/URL] on a quadrans, and [URL='https://hvrd.art/o/304007']one[/URL] at the Harvard Art Museum in Cambridge, MA. [ATTACH=full]1119807[/ATTACH] [B]P. Crepusius[/B], 82 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint [B]Obv:[/B] Laureate head of Apollo right, scepter over shoulder; T to left, a strigilum (symbol: bath scraper) below chin [B]Rev: [/B]Warrior on horse rearing right, brandishing spear in right hand; CCCLXXVIII behind; P • CREPVSI in exergue [B]Ref:[/B] Crawford 361/1c; Sydenham 738a; Crepusia 1[/QUOTE]
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