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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3455845, member: 90666&quot;]The Mercury quadrans is not an error type as there are multiple obverse dies. The type dates right from the start of the denarius coinage when there was a great deal of experimentation. This type is from the same series as the RRC 98 LT coinage. I explained at INC Taormina that the LT coinage and about half the RRC 97 L coinage was probably minted near Herdonia and not in Luceria. Other bronzes of the Luceria Canusium and &quot;LT mint&quot; include strange types including Dioscuri on horseback (sextans), a Dioscurus (uncia), Victory and quadriga (dextans) and other oddball types. This Mercury quadrans was merely one of the experiments at a time when it wasn&#039;t yet clear that the official coinage of Rome was about to standardize for the next hundred and fifty years. That hadn&#039;t yet happened. In the context of all the other coinage upheavals of the time, the Mercury quadrans was pretty interesting but not an error in my view. A desirable type.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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