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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fugio1, post: 4116429, member: 89970&quot;]Yes, I think it is uniformly believed that RRC 45/1 is among the &gt; 30 different denarius, quinarius, sestertius, and Victoriatus issues noted by Crawford to date around 211 BC.&nbsp; These include both anonymous and symboled issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>For my own collection, I have little hope of ever obtaining an example of RRC 45/1, given its popularity for collectors as being the only denarius with fully incuse legend available to collectors. The unique Bastianelli specimen of RRC 68/1b with fully incuse legend, also dated to about 211 BC,&nbsp; is in the British Museum, so... unavailable for us to own.&nbsp; RRC 68/1b is very common, but the phenomenon of this single fully incuse die is quite interesting.&nbsp; Here&#039;s an image:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1067796[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There have been a few RRC 44/5 coins that have been marketed as fully incuse but all show some evidence of the characteristic semi-incuse depressions between letters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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