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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herodotus, post: 4256681, member: 111387&quot;]Well,</p><p><br /></p><p>Look what just showed up in Saturday evening&#039;s mail.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Did I mention, that I had a problem?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.imgonline.com.ua/result_img/imgonline-com-ua-resize-yXiXGTWW1dxw.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1085434[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>No elephant head under the quadriga, but nice for me nonetheless.</p><p><br /></p><p>This one came mis-attributing the moneyer as L. Antestius Gragulus 136 B.C. </p><p><br /></p><p>Upon, closer inspection it looks more like P. Maenius Antiaticus M. f. 132 B.C.</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;d be Victory at the helm, not Jupiter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can someone confirm my thinking about the mark on the obverse?&nbsp; All that I can seem to find is it referred to as a &#039;value mark&#039;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My educated guess is that it represents XVI(16), as I remember reading somewhere that the value of a Denarius changed to sixteen Asses at one point. Whereas, at its inception, the original mark of X(10) represented ten Asses, hence its namesake &#039;Denarius&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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