Question: Cleoptara - Marc Antony denarii Die Study Sought

Hi All,

Quick Question to the group: Does anyone know if a die study has been done on the Cleoptara - Marc Antony denarii ? I just bought one and found a match to a CNG coin from 2017 [Electronic Auction 392 504 (01.03.2017)]. My coin is not in hand so I can't post a decent photo yet. I'd like to get info if it exists. All leads appreciated, and thanks to all.

- Broucheion

 

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This is an interesting question. If there has not been a die study, does anyone have an educated guess on how many dies there were for each of the legions? Are we talking a dozen, a hundred or more?

 

Edit: sorry I thought we were talking about the legion coins not the portraits

 

HI @dougsmit,

PRC online lists that the large Antioch Cleo-Antony Tetradrachms comprise 43 coins, 21 obv dies (and that a die study is in preparation, see
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/4094). That's all I know.

- Broucheion

 

Hi Again,

It just dawned on me that this die study might be part of the Roman Republican Die Project announced by the ANS a while back.

"This project, undertaken by Dr. Lucia Carbone (ANS) and Prof. Liv Yarrow (Brooklyn College, CUNY) aims at providing a precise quantification of the monetary production under the Roman Republic. … The first part of the project consists of the digital preservation of Richard Schaefer’s archive of Roman Republican die studies (including all the coin types classified in RRC). … The second part of the project will deal with the digitization of the scanned materials. After the upload to Archer, a post-doctoral fellow under the supervision of Dr. Carbone will create spreadsheets from the scanned images, ..."​

- Boucheion