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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2568338, member: 74282&quot;]This type has been high on my wishlist for quite some time, slowly inching its way up each time members like [USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER] posted their excellent examples and now I&#039;ve finally picked up the first of what I&#039;m sure will be at least a handful of the type for my own collection. This moneyer&#039;s denarii used an interesting control-mark scheme where each obverse and reverse die had a unique symbol and were apparently made in pairs as the symbols generally relate to each other and there was no mixing of dies - each obverse die was used with one and only one reverse die and vice-versa. BMC RR Rome calls the symbol on the obverse of this coin a mace and the one on the reverse a club with a strap, and while I&#039;m not yet convinced of the mace on the obverse, the reverse symbol makes sense. Even on <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2277107" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2277107" rel="nofollow">die matched coins with a clearer obverse symbol</a> it doesn&#039;t quite look like any mace I&#039;ve ever seen but maybe someone here knows more about Roman maces.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]555358[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Roman republic, AR Serrate Denarius(4.10g) L Papius, moneyer. 79 BC, Rome mint. Head of Juno Sospita right; behind, mace. Bead-and-reel border / Gryphon leaping right; below, club with strap; in exergue, L PAPI. Bead-and-reel border. Crawford 384/1(symbols 73); BMCRR Rome 2977; Sydenham 773; RSC Papia 1.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, for anyone wondering what the control-marks were used for, <a href="https://brooklynsabbatical.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/witschonke-2012-die-marks-rbn.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://brooklynsabbatical.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/witschonke-2012-die-marks-rbn.pdf" rel="nofollow">this paper</a> by Richard Witschonke discusses some of the theories around them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share any relevant coins![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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