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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2616404, member: 74282&quot;]I&#039;ve been on quite the silver kick lately but I haven&#039;t completely abandoned bronzes, and I recently picked up this helmet series quadrans that even in its rough condition has a nice, clear helmet. The only theory I&#039;ve seen for the significance of the helmet is in BMCRR Italy where Greuber mentions that it may be of Gallic style and thus may be commemorating some sort of military achievement of the moneyer or an ancestor in Gaul, though there&#039;s really no way of knowing. One interesting observation I made while researching other examples of the series, however, is that there seems to be two helmet varieties: mine, with something protruding from both the left and right sides of the helmet that I&#039;ll call &quot;thick helmet&quot;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]573352[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and a smaller, thinner helmet with only the sides of the base protruding left or right that I&#039;m calling &quot;thin helmet&quot;:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]573353[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>All of the asses, semisses and trientes that I found seemed to come with the &quot;thin helmet&quot; variety but the quadrantes and possibly sextantes(but the example is not completely legible) seem to come in both varieties. I&#039;m honestly not sure what to make of it yet - maybe it&#039;s simply a difference in styles between two engravers at the mint or maybe there&#039;s more here, but I&#039;m certainly going to keep an eye out for any futher examples that might offer hints as to what&#039;s going on here.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]573341[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic Æ quadrans(22.9mm, 9.66g). Anonymous(Helmet series), 206-195 B.C., Rome mint. Head of hercules right; behind ••• /Prow right; before, helmet; above, ROMA; below, •••. Crawford 118/4; Sydenham 272c</p><p>Ex RBW Collection, ex Goodman Collection, CNG 45 lot 1286</p><p><br /></p><p>As always, please share anything relevant![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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