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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2460005, member: 74282&quot;]I picked up the following bronze from a Vcoins dealer recently. I wasn&#039;t intending on it as I actually had my eye on a beautiful quadrans he had just posted(which I&#039;ll be posting in the next week or two) but this janus-headed as was so cheap that I couldn&#039;t resist it. This as comes from a small series of bronzes thought to have been struck at an unknown Roman military mint in Sicily circa 200-190 B.C. under a series of quaestors. During my research I&#039;ve found a handful of different names/monograms within the wreath: &quot;<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2831423" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2831423" rel="nofollow">NA/SO</a>&quot;, &quot;<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1844593" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1844593" rel="nofollow">Crassipes</a>&quot;, &quot;<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1466901" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1466901" rel="nofollow">QB</a>&quot;, &quot;<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1168386" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1168386" rel="nofollow">AL</a>&quot; and a few others but I haven&#039;t quite found one with the &quot;AL&quot; or &quot;AV&quot; here, and this series is not included in any of the references I own, so the ID below is tentative and based on CNG&#039;s attribution on similar coins. I think the answer may lie in Calciati&#039;s CNS I, somewhere near page 343, coins 70ish-90, or in Hoover&#039;s HGC 2, around entry 1690, so if anyone has a copy of eiter I&#039;d be grateful if you could take a look and scan any relevant info if possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]515429[/ATTACH] </p><p>Sicily, uncertain Roman mint, Æ as(21mm, 5.37g). Anonymous(&quot;AV&quot; or &quot;AN&quot; monogram), circa 200-190 B.C. Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (Mark of value) above / AV or AN monogram within wreath. BAR issue 37; Hoover HGC 2, 1690</p><p>Ex RBW Collection, ex Peus 407, lot 250(part of), 11/7/2012[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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