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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2461330, member: 74282"]Nice coins! I'm not going to share anything as everyone here has already seen most of my collection probably, but my entire collection is posted on the site linked in my signature</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Most likely Rome mint on both of your bronzes. I don't think any fully-anonymous types were struck in Sicily except the late-Second Punic War-era half-weight overstrikes struck in Sicily, Southern Italy or Sardinia(see <a href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013</a> ) and were likely either small change to use in military camps or as a replacement for the local small change in the regions as all are either overstruck on local bronzes or earlier Roman bronzes. It's possible that the corrosion and wear have obscured a symbol on one of your bronzes, but even then, the lion's share of both anonymous and symbol bronzes were struck in Rome.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2461330, member: 74282"]Nice coins! I'm not going to share anything as everyone here has already seen most of my collection probably, but my entire collection is posted on the site linked in my signature Most likely Rome mint on both of your bronzes. I don't think any fully-anonymous types were struck in Sicily except the late-Second Punic War-era half-weight overstrikes struck in Sicily, Southern Italy or Sardinia(see [url]https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013[/url] ) and were likely either small change to use in military camps or as a replacement for the local small change in the regions as all are either overstruck on local bronzes or earlier Roman bronzes. It's possible that the corrosion and wear have obscured a symbol on one of your bronzes, but even then, the lion's share of both anonymous and symbol bronzes were struck in Rome.[/QUOTE]
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