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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3462625, member: 99456&quot;]This post clearly needed reviving after a couple of years - if only to add a Quartuncia.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]920850[/ATTACH] Anonymous,<b> Quartuncia</b>, Rome, 217-215 BC; AE </p><p><b>Obv:</b> Helmeted head of Roma right.</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Prow right; above, ROMA</p><p><b>Size:</b> 3.22g ; 16.4mm , . </p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford 38/8; Sydenham 88</p><p><br /></p><p>the smallest RR denomination, issued only briefly during the semilibral period (a sharp lowering of the weight standard), 217 to 215 BC. With declines in RR bronze coin weights, the denomination ceased, never to be resumed. Minted during the time of the Second Punic War, as Hannibal was marching through Italy after <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-hannibal-crossed-the-alps-180963671/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-hannibal-crossed-the-alps-180963671/" rel="nofollow">crossing the Alps</a>: </p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="3">Ancient historians wrote that after crossing the mountain pass, Hannibal’s army spent 15 years marauding through the Italian peninsula. “His men slaughtered 50,000 Roman soldiers at the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C.,” says Allen, “but they never took Rome.”</font></i></p><p><i><font size="3">- <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-hannibal-crossed-the-alps-180963671/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-hannibal-crossed-the-alps-180963671/" rel="nofollow">Smithsonian.com</a></font></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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