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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 3453001, member: 75525&quot;]The average condition of my RR bronze coins is lower than my RR silver. I find well worn bronze coins that shill show its major features good enough. I purchased a coin today that would normally be below the line. You can tell why I bought this coin from the obverse. Who would you expect on the obverse of a 3 dotter (Quadrans)?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917867[/ATTACH] </p><p>I do not like the ruff surfaces on this coin. The major features are there. You can tell it is an older coin because of the form of the letter A.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917868[/ATTACH]&nbsp; This is the most common form of the letter A in early struck bronze coins, before 200 BC. A few other forms are common:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917869[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]917870[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]917871[/ATTACH] </p><p>The letter A we use today was a latecomer, 150 BC.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917872[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Normally a Quadrans would have Hercules on the obverse. </p><p>[ATTACH]917878[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin has:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917877[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><b>Mercury</b>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, anonymous AE Quadrans, Luceria,&nbsp; ca. 211-208 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv - Head of Mercury on the right, above three dots °°°, below L. </p><p>Rev – Prow of Roman warship, in ex: three dots °°°.</p><p>Weight = 10.51 grams</p><p>Diameter = 23.3 mm</p><p><br /></p><p>Cr. 97 / 13d</p><p>BMCRR – Italy _ _ , Grueber assignes no number to the Hercules / prow Quadrans shown between Italy #6 &amp; Italy #7. There is no description in the main text for a Quadrans with Mercury, but one is mentioned in the notes. Grueber II pg 147 in footnote 3: “D’Ailly (Mon rom, pl. civ., nos. 4, 5) figures two quadrantes with the obverse type of the sextans, i.e. bust of Mercury…. which must be due to a blunder on the part of the die engraver. “</p><p>Garrucci – pg. 69, Table LXXXI #3</p><p><br /></p><p>I have another error on a Quadrans. </p><p>[ATTACH]917890[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]917892[/ATTACH] </p><p>3 dots on obverse &amp; 4 on reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your not quite right coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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