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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4519794, member: 19463&quot;]A problem with quadrantes is so many of them lack legend to assign them to a reign so we see listings allowing anything from Domitian to Antoninus Pius.&nbsp; I am unaware of more recent studies on that matter.&nbsp; Below are my two with reverse animals related related to the obverse deity.</p><p>Minerva / owl</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1119699[/ATTACH]</p><p>Juno / peacock</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1119700[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin I show below was sold to me as a semis and weighs 3.3g (light for a semis unless we allow for another factor).&nbsp; My coin is too patinated to tell but the literature suggests that it is brass rather than copper so the difference would be obvious when the coins were bright and shiny.&nbsp; Is that a tiny brass spot showing at obverse top?&nbsp; Mine is also assigned to the mint&nbsp; in Comagne rather than Rome leaving the question whether the coin was an Imperial or a Latin language Colonial.&nbsp; That last would explain the lack of SC on the reverse so it may be incorrect to even use the term semis here.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1119692[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Latin language Colonies were formed in the provinces by retired citizen soldiers and served to Romanize the regions.&nbsp; The practice was abandoned in later times probably because more of the soldiers were not Roman and settling them with honor would accomplish nothing to the benefit of the emperor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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