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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 3925743, member: 75525"]I bought an overstrike coin early this year. Spoiler alert, it may be in my top 10.</p><p>The top coin is a quadrans with Hercules on the obverse and a ship's prow, right, on the reverse. The seller called the coin Cr 106/7a - Staff and Club series from Eturia. The a means the reverse has a staff, and there is no club on the obverse. I am not sure what qualifies as a staff on the reverse. If the line is not a staff, the attribution would be: Cr 56/5, Anonymous series from Rome. Crawford notes both Cr 56/5 and Cr 106/7 are known to have been struck over Cr 38/6. What do you think?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1034740[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1034741[/ATTACH]</p><p>The undertype is a Roma left / prow right semilibral uncia, Cr 38/6 from Rome. The back of Roma's helmet and neck and the mark of value are visible below Hercules head. On the reverse a curved back of a ship;s prow and two soldiers is visable. There are many variations of style of uncia. The best fit for what I see was from the Vecchi sale in Sept 1996, lot 30.</p><p>[ATTACH]1034781[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought a similar overstrike a few years ago. That seller did not give Crawford numbers for the top of bottom coin dies.</p><p>[ATTACH]1034783[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1034784[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1034785[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 3925743, member: 75525"]I bought an overstrike coin early this year. Spoiler alert, it may be in my top 10. The top coin is a quadrans with Hercules on the obverse and a ship's prow, right, on the reverse. The seller called the coin Cr 106/7a - Staff and Club series from Eturia. The a means the reverse has a staff, and there is no club on the obverse. I am not sure what qualifies as a staff on the reverse. If the line is not a staff, the attribution would be: Cr 56/5, Anonymous series from Rome. Crawford notes both Cr 56/5 and Cr 106/7 are known to have been struck over Cr 38/6. What do you think? [ATTACH=full]1034740[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1034741[/ATTACH] The undertype is a Roma left / prow right semilibral uncia, Cr 38/6 from Rome. The back of Roma's helmet and neck and the mark of value are visible below Hercules head. On the reverse a curved back of a ship;s prow and two soldiers is visable. There are many variations of style of uncia. The best fit for what I see was from the Vecchi sale in Sept 1996, lot 30. [ATTACH]1034781[/ATTACH] I bought a similar overstrike a few years ago. That seller did not give Crawford numbers for the top of bottom coin dies. [ATTACH]1034783[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1034784[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1034785[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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