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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 26562193, member: 81887&quot;][ATTACH=full]1692537[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic.&nbsp; Anonymous, after 211 BCE.&nbsp; AR victoriatus.&nbsp; Obverse: Laureate head of Jupiter right.&nbsp; Reverse: Victory crowning trophy, ROMA in exergue.&nbsp; Crawford 53/1, Sydenham 86.&nbsp; This coin: Frank S. Robinson Auction 129, lot 111 (October 25, 2025).</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is part of the Roman financial response to the Second Punic War (218- 201 BCE).&nbsp; The victoriatus was half the weight of a quadrigatus (didrachm) and thus meant to be equivalent to a drachm, rather than the denarius that had recently been introduced as the main Roman silver denomination.&nbsp; The victoriatus was used to pay the Roman troops in southern Italy and Sicily, and the coins have turned up in large numbers in hoards from those regions.&nbsp; Victoriati continued to circulate for many decades after the end of the war.&nbsp; According to Kenneth W. Harl in Coinage in the Roman Economy, &quot;They were popular in Cisalpine Gaul, passing as equivalent of Massiliot drachmae and Celtic imitative pieces of the Po Valley.&nbsp; Victoriati that sustained heavy wear during the Second Punic War were later revalued down to 5 asses or one-half of the denarius, the reckoning Cato the Elder employed in 180 B.C. Since victoriati were of a base alloy, their greater weight and size made them much more handy fractions than the tiny, easily lost quinarii and sestertii.&quot;&nbsp; This coin has clearly seen a lot of use, which in my opinion makes it even more interesting as a witness to history.&nbsp; Please post your victoriati or other related coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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