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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2997925, member: 74282&quot;]Excellent pickup! Both of your examples are beautiful and better than mine even if now you&#039;ve got a duplicate. If you ever decide to get rid of one let&#039;s talk.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>One of the two or more Sicilian mints of this period minted these denarii(and quinarii and sestertius) with a big &quot;horn&quot; or whatever that is:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]741093[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Another mint in Sicily however minted anonymous denarii in a different style without the horn but which generally have a small loop under the edge of the visor and in a particularly well executed style:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]741094[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Take the numbers of these you find on ACSearch with a grain of salt. Most anonymous denarii, quinarii, sestertii and victoriati that come to market are identified as Crawford 44 or Crawford 53. If you look at those on ACSearch you will find more incorrectly attributed ones of these varieties than you will find correctly attributed ones and even big auctioneers like CNG make these mistakes so you really have to pay close attention to them and double check their work when buying.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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