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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3395699, member: 56859&quot;]I think Bing is correct.&nbsp; The figure on the obverse (Mars, per Crawford, although some speculate Scipio Africanus) is stylistically distinctive on these denarii of Roman Republic moneyer Blasio.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Roman Republican Coinage, Crawford lists a dozen different symbols behind the bust and a star is one of them.&nbsp; With the star, his catalog number is 296/1b.</p><p><br /></p><p>Brockages are abundant in Roman Republican denarii and they are generally of the obverse, presumably because the coin stuck in the hammer die (the reverse), causing a brockage of the next coin struck.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=blasio+brockage&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=blasio+brockage&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" rel="nofollow">There are 5 such brockages of Blasio denarii in ACsearch</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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