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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2414719, member: 42773"]So I was out shopping for RR denarii the other day, and came across this one of L. Calpurnius Piso L.f. Frugi, Horseman galloping right type. This is a very common type, which can be had in much higher grades, but this a variety that seemed quite scarce to me (if I'm wrong, please let me know).</p><p><br /></p><p>This one has tongs on the reverse - I only found three on acsearch <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=piso+denarius+tong&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&thesaurus=1&order=0&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=piso+denarius+tong&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&currency=usd&thesaurus=1&order=0&company=" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and only one of those has the grasshopper/C obverse. At any rate, I think it's quite unusual to find minting implements on coins so I had to snag it.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]499541[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2414719, member: 42773"]So I was out shopping for RR denarii the other day, and came across this one of L. Calpurnius Piso L.f. Frugi, Horseman galloping right type. This is a very common type, which can be had in much higher grades, but this a variety that seemed quite scarce to me (if I'm wrong, please let me know). This one has tongs on the reverse - I only found three on acsearch [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=piso+denarius+tong&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1¤cy=usd&thesaurus=1&order=0&company=']here[/URL], and only one of those has the grasshopper/C obverse. At any rate, I think it's quite unusual to find minting implements on coins so I had to snag it. [ATTACH=full]499541[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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