Roman Republic AS

Roman Republic: Anonymous. 169-158 BC. Æ As . Rome mint. Laureate head of Janus; I above / Prow right; above, butterfly on vine branch; I to right. Crawford 184/1a; Sydenham 296; RBW 780.

32.3mm 27.67g

Ex. RBW, purchased from R. Schaefer 12/12/1992

 

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That's neat. I wouldn't have recognized it without your help.

 

Really nice example of the type. They put the control mark on this type fairly high on the reverse so, consequently, few show more than a small portion of the grapes or the leaf. You were extremely lucky to find one with grapes, leaf and mosg of the butterfly on-flan. I'm jealous

 

I'd love to have this type simply for the butterfly, a very uncommon device on ancient coins. Nice score!

 

Wonderful example!!

 

http://numismatics.org/crro/

In an attempt to find a photo of one, I discovered the above link is now dead. Anyone know details?
https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=178251
Finding a FDC may take a while.

 

In case you were wondering, the illustrated example 184/1a in Crawford is quite clear that it really is a butterfly.

 

Here's a good picture of one: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1102630

 

Very interesting.

 

thanks for the comments


here is one with a good butterfly,




and here are a few more pics of my coin too lol...
1st pic-- January Ebay auction
2nd pic -- May Ebay auction
3rd pic -- my picture
The real appearance is most like my pic but slightly greener

 

Nice!! => congrats arnoldoe, that's an awesome AE RR Prow coin (I love those types)

... I have a couple of cool examples (no butterflies, but I have a couple of other cool stowaways)

 

oh wow, that's cool...i didn't know these came in "butterfly"...neat coin arnoldoe!