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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2639076, member: 75525&quot;]I would go with Volodya&#039;s description.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 148 BC three moneyers issued silver denarii. </p><p>Cr214.1&nbsp; M. Atilius Saranus</p><p>Cr215.1&nbsp; Q. Marcius Libo</p><p>Cr216.1&nbsp; L. Sempronius Pitio</p><p>For the first time their names were on both the obverse and reverse. All had Roma&#039;s head on the obverse and the Dioscurii on the reverse. The OP coin meets the first of these pretty well =&gt; the earliest date could not be before these coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>All of the 148 BC coins had ROMA in ex on the reverse. The OP coin is not close. It could be the reverse was just not close in design, or it could have been trying to look like later coins with two lines of names below the Discourii. M. Baebius Q.f. Tampilus, Cr236.1, was the first to have a name in ex in 137 BC.</p><p>I do not know names with the letter combinations shown on the reverse. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]581908[/ATTACH]&nbsp; from recent CNG auction[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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