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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Volodya, post: 2276279, member: 19615&quot;]It&#039;s scarce, but certainly not rare--Crawford estimates 90 obverse and 112 reverse dies for the whole issue. This variety showing the voting tablet is the most interesting and of course is scarcer by itself than the entire issue, but they do come up for sale regularly enough. As you discovered though, they typically are a homely lot at best. You sort of wish the hammer would finally land on Mars&#039; head and put the whole issue out of its misery. </p><p><br /></p><p>The matter of the fabric of RR denarii is something that I think would repay serious study. It&#039;s remarkable how widely and how rapidly it changes, sometimes year-to-year, and this type is typically ill-struck on very rough, poorly-prepared planchets. I imagine these punk kid moneyers coming in each year and deciding <b>they </b>would be the ones to finally put the Rome mint on a sound financial and artistic footing; firing all the old experienced staff and loaning their own kitchen or garden slaves to the mint. The results were, shall we say, <i>uneven</i>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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