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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 3453060, member: 74282&quot;]Here are a few of my quinarii and a sestertius. I try to avoid flan cracks now as well and have tried to seek higher grade coins overall in the past year or so but sometimes I see a coin so special I can overlook just about any fault such as the Spearhead quinarius below:</p><p><br /></p><p>A fully anonymous quinarius and a sestertius from the &quot;Crawford 44&quot; series bucket that really probably represents multiple distinct emissions. The sestertius is from a stylistic group that hoard evidence suggests is the earliest emission.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917915[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic AR Quinarius(2.17g, 11h). Anonymous. After 211 B.C. Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; behind, V. Border of dots / Dioscuri galloping right; in linear frame, ROMA. Line border. Crawford 44/6; RSC 3.</p><p><a href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/86/category/3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/86/category/3" rel="nofollow">Ex RBW Collection, purchased from Antiqua, March 1997</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]917911[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic AR Sestertius(12.75 mm, 1.14 g, 2h). Anonymous, first anonymous denarius coinage series. Circa 211 B.C. Rome mint. Helmeted head of Roma right; behind, IIS. Border of dots / Dioscuri galloping right; in linear frame, ROMA. Line border. Crawford 44/7; Sydenham 142; RSC 4; Russo RBW 176-177.</p><p>Purchased from Apollo Numismatics(Merrill Gibson) via VCoins, 1/1/2016. Reportedly ex Serop Simonian</p><p><br /></p><p>A Crawford 45/2 quinarius. This is a scarcer fully anonymous emission that includes denarii, quinarii and sesterii all with a similar style.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917913[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic AR Quinarius(16mm, 2.28 g, 12h). Anonymous. After 211 B.C. Uncertain(perhaps Apulian?) mint. Head of Roma right, wearing winged helmet ornamented with griffin&#039;s head and three-piece visor, earring an necklace; behind, V. Border of dots / Dioscuri on horseback riding right, each holding couched spear and wearing chlamys, cuirass and pileus surmounted by star; in relief in linear frame, ROMA. Line border. Crawford 45/2; Russo RBW 180; Sydenham 169.</p><p><a href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/151/category/3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/151/category/3" rel="nofollow">Ex CNG Triton XXII, 1/9/2018, lot 787, ex Alan J Harlan collection, purchased from Spink &amp; Son</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A Crawford 72/4 &quot;corn-ear&quot; quinarius from Sicily. Possibly from the same hoard as the 44/6 above as it has a similar dark hoard patina and was in the market around the time many similarly patinated coins appeared:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917917[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic AR quinarius(15mm, 2.05g, 11h). Anonymous, wheat-ear/corn-ear series, ca. 211-210 B.C., Sicilian mint. Helmeted head of Roma right, V behind / The Dioscuri riding right, each holds a spear; wheat-ear/corn-ear below; in linear frame, ROMA. Crawford 72/4; Sydenham 194</p><p><a href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/152/category/3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/152/category/3" rel="nofollow">Ex RBW Collection, Agora 73, 3/27/2018, lot 206, privately purchased from Dmitry Markov, 9/9/1994</a></p><p><br /></p><p>An exceedingly rare and unpublished variety of the spearhead quinarius, one of only a handful known, most of which are in museums. Roberto Russo and more recently Andrew McCabe have done some excellent work teasing out the three groups of &quot;spearhead&quot; bronzes and McCabe has shown that the more common spearhead quinarii are apparently related to the Sardinian Praetor quinarii, but this is more reminiscent of the style of the Apulian spearhead bronzes. I simply could not pass this coin up even with it&#039;s flaws because the style really spoke to me that this coin was special. Apparently even though it appeared in multiple NAC sales it went mostly unnoticed over the years. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]917918[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic AR quinarius(1.62g, 15mm, 5h). Anonymous(Spearhead series), after 212 BC, Apulian(?) mint. Helmeted head of Roma right, V behind / The Dioscuri riding right; below, ROMA and Spearhead. Crawford 83/3</p><p>Ex Pegasi Spartan sale S77, 1/16/2018, lot 185, ex Naville Numismatics Auction 1, 6/15/2013, lot 62, ex Numismatica Ars Classica Auction R, 5/16/2007, lot 1263, ex Numismatica Ars Classica Auction M, 3/20/2002, lot 2422</p><p><br /></p><p>Two styles of the Crawford 85/1a &quot;H&quot; quinarius. The first is the more common style, quite common and found in many early hoards. The second is considerably scarcer and not found in any of the early hoards. It may have been struck at the same mint but much later. The H bronzes exhibit a similar multiple-phase emission pattern.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]917914[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic AR quinarius(16.3mm, 1.94g, 12h). Anonymous. ca. 212-196 B.C. Apulian mint. Helmeted head of Roma right, V behind / ROMA, the Dioscuri riding right, each holds a spear; H below. Crawford 85/1a; Sydenham 174; RSC 33b; Russo RBW 347.</p><p><a href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/38/category/3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/38/category/3" rel="nofollow">Ex RBW Collection, ex Malter XXX(Frederick Hastings Rindge collection, assembled in the 19th century), lot 1473, 6/7/1985</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]917916[/ATTACH] </p><p>Roman Republic AR quinarius(2.16g, 16mm, 9h). Anonymous. ca. 212-196 B.C. Apulian mint. Helmeted head of Roma right, V behind / ROMA, the Dioscuri riding right, each holds a spear; H below. Crawford 85/1a; Sydenham 174; RSC 33b; Russo RBW 348/<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1102210" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1102210" rel="nofollow">NAC 61 lot 356</a>(these dies)</p><p>Ex Roma XIII, 3/23/2017, lot 544[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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