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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 5164624, member: 99456"]Great selection [USER=74799]@Quant.Geek[/USER], I particularly like the Sassanian-dog coin, the beady-eyed Celtic Alexander, and the overstruck quadrans is very interesting too. I am 65% confident in the undertype as I think I see a horse's leg on the right side of your reverse (and the die axis appears to work):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1210333[/ATTACH]<a href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" rel="nofollow">here's a relevant paper</a> from [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER] :</p><p><br /></p><p>"a great proportion of such coins are overstrikes on non Roman second Punic war era bronzes (of a variety of types, but predominantly Carthaginian Tanit / horse types), the overstrikes are certainly second Punic war coins. These undertypes are easily noticed due to the distinctive horse leg and tail being near the edge of flans."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 5164624, member: 99456"]Great selection [USER=74799]@Quant.Geek[/USER], I particularly like the Sassanian-dog coin, the beady-eyed Celtic Alexander, and the overstruck quadrans is very interesting too. I am 65% confident in the undertype as I think I see a horse's leg on the right side of your reverse (and the die axis appears to work): [ATTACH=full]1210333[/ATTACH][URL='https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013']here's a relevant paper[/URL] from [USER=90666]@Andrew McCabe[/USER] : "a great proportion of such coins are overstrikes on non Roman second Punic war era bronzes (of a variety of types, but predominantly Carthaginian Tanit / horse types), the overstrikes are certainly second Punic war coins. These undertypes are easily noticed due to the distinctive horse leg and tail being near the edge of flans."[/QUOTE]
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