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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2776220, member: 74282&quot;]I&#039;ve been trying to add more of the early Roma/Dioscuri types to my collection recently so I couldn&#039;t resist when I saw this example from Sicily ending at a price that, if nothing else, made it a nice hole-filler until I can afford a better example of this rare type. It ended up going for only $51 shipped from Europe, which I felt was more than fair, even if it looks like someone may have taken a &quot;snack&quot; out of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This denarius comes from the Second Punic War-era mint that Crawford identifies as Sicily(1) - a mint also responsible for the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/newp-rr-sextans-overstruck-on-hieron-ii-poseidon-trident-bronze.283273/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/newp-rr-sextans-overstruck-on-hieron-ii-poseidon-trident-bronze.283273/">Cr. 69 corn-ear KA types</a> as well as the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/did-it-again-yet-another-anonymous-victoriatus.295648/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/did-it-again-yet-another-anonymous-victoriatus.295648/">Cr. 67 victoriati</a> and which some numismatists have assigned to the city of Katania on the island&#039;s Eastern coast. The Cr. 68 series that this particular example comes from includes both <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1102148" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1102148" rel="nofollow">signed silver types with a corn-ear/grain-ear symbol</a> as well as fully-anonymous silver types like the example shown below, all of which share the the characteristic horn or spike on the back of the helmet that only occurs on this series as well as a characteristic angular obverse style that is completely unlike that of <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-c%C2%B7al-denarius-without-the-moneyers-name.292806/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-c%C2%B7al-denarius-without-the-moneyers-name.292806/">the other anonymous types from Sicily</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]641275[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic AR Denarius(3.36g), anonymous(uninscribed corn-ear series), 211-195 B.C., Sicilian mint. Helmeted head of Roma right with &quot;spike&quot; on rear of helmet; behind, X / The Dioscuri galloping right; below, ROMA in linear frame. Crawford 68/1b; Sydenham 191</p><p><br /></p><p>Share your RR types from Sicily, or failing that, whatever you feel is appropriate[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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