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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 7854254, member: 74282&quot;]Probably the rarest anonymous denarius I own was picked up from a Harlan J Berk buy or bid sale. This coin had actually been sold by HJB previously, published in multiple different places, and then popped up again almost 20 years later, identified as a common &quot;Crawford 44/5&quot;(the catch-all ID used to describe most anonymous denarii by sellers) and I was lucky enough to have just gotten home from work and spotted the sale within minutes of it being posted. At $250 the price was low enough that I didn&#039;t have to think too long before snapping it up, and that was good because 2 other collectors later told me they&#039;d been waiting for this coin to reappear and would also have bought it without hesitation had they seen it first.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1352752[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic AR Denarius(4.83g, 21mm, 10h). Anonymous. After 211 B.C. Uncertain mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; behind, X. Border of dots / Dioscuri galloping right; in linear frame, ROMA. Line border. Crawford -; Brinkman-Debernardi website 46(a)/1, example 2(this coin); Numismatic Chronicle 174(2014), &quot;The Orzivecchi Hoard and the Beginnings of the Denarius&quot;, p. 85, fig 5.b(this coin)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ex Harlan J Berk Buy or Bid Sale 210, 6 February 2020, lot 116, ex Harlan J Berk Buy or Bid Sale 121, 10 July 2001, lot 266</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1353120[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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