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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 8276038, member: 74282&quot;]Here&#039;s an interesting variety of these moneyers&#039; denarii. A hybrid with the obverse of Crawford 422/1a, the variety without REX ARETAS on the obverse and without the scorpion on the reverse, and the reverse of the more common Crawford 422/1b, the variety with REX ARETAS on the obverse and a scorpion on the reverse. Crawford mentions this variety in the appendix but all examples known to him were plated and as such rejected. This example was found to be of solid silver via specific gravity testing, and further is die-linked to examples of 422/1a and 422/1b that appear to also be of good silver and official and proves the existence of the variety. Richard Schaefer and I contributed a short paper about this to KOINON I, and that paper can be found <a href="https://www.academia.edu/40406073/A_Doubted_Variety_of_M_Aemilius_Scaurus_and_P_Plautius_Hypsaeus_Vindicated_Jordan_Montgomery_and_Richard_Schaefer" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/40406073/A_Doubted_Variety_of_M_Aemilius_Scaurus_and_P_Plautius_Hypsaeus_Vindicated_Jordan_Montgomery_and_Richard_Schaefer" rel="nofollow">here</a>. At the time we were aware of 4 examples from 3 die pairs. I am now aware of a total of 6 examples, still from those same 3 die pairs, one of which was purchased by [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER] some time ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461160[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic AR denarius(3.80g, 18.31mm). M. Aemilius Scaurus and P. Plautius Hypsaeus, 58 BC, Rome mint. Camel right; before, kneeling figure, holding reins in left hand and olive-branch tied with fillet in right hand; above, M SCAVR; on either side, EX SC; below, AED CVR. Border of dots / Jupiter in quadriga left, holding reins in left hand and hurling thunderbolt with right hand, ; above, P HVPSAEVS; AED CVR in two lines. Below, C HVPSAE COS; PREIVER in two lines. On right, CAPTVM upwards. Border of dots. Crawford 422/1-(obverse 422/1a, reverse 422/1b), cf. Bahrfeldt, Nachtrage i, pl. I, 9[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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