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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3452068, member: 99456&quot;]I was a little worried about the fragility of this coin when I bid on it and was pleasantly surprised see that, in hand, the flan crack that looks cavernous in the photo is very stable, and for me not distracting. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]917422[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Roman Republic, Anonymous AR Quinarius</b>, 211 BC</p><p><b>Mint: </b>Rome</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Helmeted head of Roma right; V behind.</p><p><b>Rev: </b>The Dioscuri on horseback to right, ROMA in linear frame in exergue.</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford 44/6; Sydenham 141; RSC 3.</p><p><b>Size:</b> 15.6mm, 2.21g (1/2 denarius, weight standard based on denarius weight of 4.5g)</p><p><br /></p><p>A few quotes on the time period from Kenneth Harl, &quot;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Coinage-Economy-Ancient-Society-History/dp/0801852919" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Coinage-Economy-Ancient-Society-History/dp/0801852919" rel="nofollow">Coinage in the Roman Economy</a>&quot;:</p><ul> <li><font size="4">&quot;In the Second Punic War, the Republic reforged silver and bronze currency into a system of denominations that endured for the next 450 years&quot;</font></li> <li><font size="4">&quot;Roman triumphs on the battlefield also ensured the triumph of the new Roman currency throughout Italy and the provinces of Sicily&quot;</font></li> <li><font size="4">&quot;Hundreds of thousands of gold and silver<i> litrae </i>of Syracuse, Corinthian-style <i>pegasi</i>, Campanian and Italiot didrachmae, and sheckels of Carthage and her Italian allies were melted down and struck into denarii in massive re-coinages in 211-200 B.C. that changed the face of currency in the western Mediterranean&quot;</font></li> </ul><p>Interesting to consider where the silver for this quinarius might have come from.&nbsp; A related post on republican quinarii from this period by [USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER]&nbsp; <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-interesting-later-style-example-of-the-h-quinarius.294298/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-interesting-later-style-example-of-the-h-quinarius.294298/">here,</a> with useful references.&nbsp; The coin I share above, illustrates the A1 helmet style referencing this Sydenham table (<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42666337?read-now=1&amp;seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42666337?read-now=1&amp;seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents" rel="nofollow">Hersh </a>p.78) which is the earliest helmet style.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917444[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your Quinarii with or without flaws or anything else interesting...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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