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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3801581, member: 74282&quot;]This coin came to me via the recent Roma Numismatics XVIII sale and showed up today.&nbsp; It&#039;s an anonymous denarius from the Crawford 53/2 series which Crawford used to describe most anonymous denarii with a visor with lines that end in a peak or point versus the earlier splayed or blunt end visor form, like on <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=242117" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=242117" rel="nofollow">this denarius</a>. Since the publication of Crawford, much work has been done to further subdivide the styles of these denarii and, where appropriate, connect them with the issues with symbols that are similar stylistically and as a consequence much more is known about these. Much of this work has been done by Steve Brinkman(our own [USER=89970]@Fugio1[/USER] ) and Pierluigi Debernardi and is published on Steve&#039;s website <a href="http://www.stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/index.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. This website is more and more commonly cited and I highly recommend anyone here interested in these coins read it and bookmark it as it is one of the most valuable sites on the web for identifying these types.</p><p><br /></p><p>More recently, Brinkman and Debernardi have published &quot;A New Arrangement for RRC 53/2&quot; in Revue Numismatique 2018(vol 175) which provides a further refinement to the arrangement of the coins that Crawford placed into the 53/2 group with a new grouping scheme along with further evidence provided by a much larger sample size. As few people have access to this new paper I&#039;ve cited both website and paper groups herein. This coin fits into website group 6 which equals RN 2018 group D2, a scarcer and slightly later group, struck circa 207-206 B.C. at a somewhat higher weight standard and with higher purity silver than some of the earlier groups(note this example&#039;s massive 4.30g weight). As the website points out, this group is somewhat connected stylistically with <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1588865" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1588865" rel="nofollow">one stylistic subgroup of the &quot;spearhead&quot; denarii</a>, 88/2b, and so is probably still a field mint issue from Apulia or Campania but perhaps one of the final ones. The next group cited by the paper is thought to be a distinctly later emission based on the hard cutoff in many of the hoards and may represent the transition to the Rome mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1014878[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic AR Denarius(4.30g, 20mm, 9h), anonymous, circa 207-206 B.C., Apulian or Campanian mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; behind, X / The Dioscuri galloping right; below, ROMA in linear frame. Crawford 53/2 and plate X, 17; Brinkman &amp; Debernardi website 53/2 group 6 = Revue Numismatique 175(2018) group D2</p><p>Ex Collection of Z.P., Austria, Roma Numismatics Auction XVIII, 29 September 2019, lot 794, ex Italo Vecchi Auction 10, March 24-25 1998, lot 531</p><p><br /></p><p>Before I leave, here&#039;s the coin as it appeared in Vecchi 10 in March 1998. As you can see, this coin has very uniform dark toning across the entire coin, suggesting a much older provenance which I&#039;m still hunting for. I&#039;ve got a tip to search a handful of lists from some old Italian firms and will be hunting those down soon and hoping I can add another link to the provenance chain.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1014937[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As always, feel free to share anything relevant[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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