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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2192664, member: 56859&quot;]I&#039;d gladly own any of the three types.&nbsp; Cordia 3 has been on my list for a while now... Cupid on a dolphin, a must-have for any collector who leans towards the whimsical <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Michael Harlan has two books about Roman Republican moneyers.&nbsp; I have the one which covers 81-64 BCE and there is one from 64-49 BCE.&nbsp; I hope he is working on more in the series.</p><p><br /></p><p>In a Forvm thread, Harlan has <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=85888.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=85888.0" rel="nofollow">two rather lengthy posts</a> in which he proffers a theory about the significance of SC on coins of Republican moneyers.&nbsp; I won&#039;t summarize it here.&nbsp; In his first book (the one I own), he says this:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The mint magistrate, however, was not the only person who was given authority to mint silver into coin.&nbsp; We have numerous examples of coins issued by higher magistrates:&nbsp; quaestors who marked their coins with a Q, curule aediles who marked their coins with CVR・AED, plebeian aediles who marked their coins AED・PL, praetors who marked their coins with a P or PR, and in one case a special &#039;curator for minting denarii&#039; who marked his coins CVR*FL.&nbsp;&nbsp; In every one of the instances between 81 and 49 where a higher magistrate has inscribed his denarius with this office, there is an S・C, indicating that it was minted by the decree of the Senate.&nbsp; However, there are also a large number of coins that have the S・C inscription without any designation of office.&nbsp; It has been generally accepted that the S・C inscription was only used when the needs of the state went beyond the original budgeted amounts and this coinage constituted special allocations made by the decree of the Senate.&nbsp; Crawford summed up his assessment of the S・C inscription, &#039;it thus seems probable, though not absolutely certain, that routine coinage, although authorized by the Senate bore no special mark and that only when an issue was separately authorised during the year it was marked with EX SC.&#039;&nbsp; Crawford assigned to the mint magistrates all the S・C coinage not signed by higher magistrates and this has been generally accepted.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>-from <b>Roman Republican Moneyers and Their Coins 81 BCE-64 BCE</b>, Michael Harlan.</p><p><br /></p><p>He has more to say about the matter in his book and in the Forvm thread.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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