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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fugio1, post: 3317881, member: 89970&quot;][USER=80147]@Ancient Aussie[/USER] ,&nbsp; Unfortunately there is not a short answer. There are six very distinct obverse styles consistently seen in the RRC 44 denarius/quinarius/Sestertius groups.&nbsp; These are illustrated in Crawford’s plates.&nbsp;&nbsp; Four of these are known to be earliest from hoard evidence, and they are die linked so we know they are from the same mint and time.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]879711[/ATTACH]</p><p>Your&nbsp; group 4 example is one of these earliest varieties.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yours is of the style in Crawford’s plate IX.31, and is an obverse die link to that coin.&nbsp; On two of these varieties Roma has unbound hair below the helmet neck flap as yours does.&nbsp; The more common “loose hair” style (group 3) consistently shows the helmet wing with a sharp angle at the “wrist” and feathers pointing downward.&nbsp; Your specimen has feathers pointing more back and upward.&nbsp;&nbsp; Specializing in this series, I see fewer of this variety than most of the others, and unusually, I see more denarii than quinarii. I would say the quinarii are at least extremely scarce.&nbsp; Crawford does not show sestertii for this variety in his plates but they do exist and are very rare.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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