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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8049448, member: 115909&quot;]This is my only RR coin of any type.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1393729[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1393728[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Anonymous. Ca. 225-214/2 BC. AR didrachm or quadrigatus (23mm, 6.64 gm, 7h). NGC AU 5/5 - 3/5, overstruck.</b> Uncertain mint. Laureate head of youthful Janus, two small annulets on top of head / Jupiter, hurling thunderbolt with right hand, scepter in left, in fast quadriga right driven by Victory; ROMA incuse on raised tablet below. Crawford 29/3. Sydenham 64.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently they were minted to pay for the Second Punic War from silver paid by Carthage after the First Punic War.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It’s called a Quadrigatus. Livy called them “heavy denarii” but modern scholars say it was an entirely different coin from the denarius.</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I really like about it is that it is an over strike so it was struck over an older coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m not sure what coin it was struck over but I’m guessing a Greek didrachm.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’d love to get some Roman Republic denarii though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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