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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 6657754, member: 99456&quot;]Nice coins, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER], the knife does looks like a perfume bottle or a flask as much as it might look like a knife.&nbsp; I guess I like this coin from the time of Sulla&#039;s dictatorship as I have all three varieties 1a, 1b, and 1c...the third one falls somewhere close to the top of my list of favorite coins.&nbsp; Crawford lists 19 dies for this variety:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1269075[/ATTACH]</p><p>C. Marius C.f. Capito, 81 BC, AR Serrate Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Draped bust of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain ears; XI at end of legend</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Husbandman with yoke of oxen plowing left; XI above</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Crawford<b> 378/1a</b>; Sydenham 744; Maria 7</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my example of 378/1b which is the most unusual of the three variants variant with only 6/125 dies described in Crawford.&nbsp; I liked the grasshopper/cricket in exergue, even though it falls off the flan.[ATTACH=full]1269074[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>C. Marius C.f. Capito</b>, 81 BC, AR Serrate Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> C•MARI•C•F•CAPIT•XXVIII, draped bust of Ceres, wearing wreath of grain ears; XXVIII before</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Ploughman with yoke of oxen left; XXVIII above, S • C and cricket in exergue. Crawford <b>378/1b</b>; Sydenham 744a; Maria 8</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1269076[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>C. Marius C.f. Capito</b>, 81 BC, AR Serrate Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Bust of Ceres right; behind, CAPIT·T(upside down)XXXXVIII, Below chin, unidentified symbol</p><p><b>Rev:</b>Ploughman with a yoke of oxen left; above, T(upside down)XXXXVIII. In exergue, C·MARI·C·F / S·C</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Babelon Maria 9; Sydenham 744b; Crawford <b>378/1c</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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