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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2967643, member: 82322&quot;]I was also at the show.&nbsp; I had dinner with [USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER].&nbsp; I struck out on the Greek fractions I was looking for but obtained interesting Roman Republican bronzes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first is an overstrike similar to one <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picked-up-another-second-punic-war-era-overstruck-rr-bronze.269791/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picked-up-another-second-punic-war-era-overstruck-rr-bronze.269791/">discussed before</a> here.&nbsp; Both reverses are strong; depending on the light the coin looks completely like a ship or a woman.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]727485[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic, 209 BC, sextans, 18mm, 3.99g</p><p>Obv: Head of Mercury right. above, two pellets</p><p>Rev: Prow right; above, ROMA; before AVR monogram; two pellets below.</p><p>Ref: Crawford 65/6</p><p><br /></p><p>I am not quite certain what the undertype is.&nbsp; I see a ground line and some legs but I am not sure if the legs are human or the back end of a horse.&nbsp; Perhaps the undertype is similar to <a href="http://goccf.com/t/186683#1722395" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://goccf.com/t/186683#1722395" rel="nofollow">http://goccf.com/t/186683#1722395</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This series is signed &quot;AVR&quot;, which along with find spot and hoard evidence seems to suggest that it was minted in Sardinia near the end of the Second Punic War, likely under Caius Aurunculeius Cotta, Praetor of Sardinia in 209 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other Republican bronze is a Hercules type but I am not sure which variety.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]727486[/ATTACH]</p><p>Roman Republic, quadrans, 19mm, 3.73g</p><p>Obv: Hercules head</p><p>Rev: Prow</p><p>Ref: Crawford 56/5? 196/4? 118/4?</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse uses very thin lines instead of the bold lines I am used to seeing on Republican bronzes...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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