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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7375805, member: 110350"]Thanks to all of you for the compliments and for posting your own coins. Now that I have two quinarii of my own, I can see how appealing they are, not despite but because of their tiny size compared to the denarii.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=89211]@eparch[/USER] and [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER], I love both of your examples of the Memmius/Quirinus denarius, and agree the type in general is very artistic. I admit that I prefer the kind with the curved obverse legend, but don't really think it makes a huge difference. Interestingly, neither Crawford nor RSC (based on Babelon) assigns different catalog numbers to the two stylistic varieties of obverse legend, even though I seem to recall their doing so on occasion for other types, even without substantive differences in the legend. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a link to the page of the Schaefer Roman Republican Die Project with all the different dies Schaefer noted for Crawford 427/2, which (according to Crawford) had only 39 different obverse dies and 42 reverse dies: <a href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_400-499#schaefer_clippings_output_427-2_01_sd" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_400-499#schaefer_clippings_output_427-2_01_sd" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_400-499#schaefer_clippings_output_427-2_01_sd</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have not (or, at least, not yet) gone through the page carefully to count how many dies there are of each type, or to look for matches to my coin's dies, but I do get the impression that the curved obverse legend is at least somewhat more common.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7375805, member: 110350"]Thanks to all of you for the compliments and for posting your own coins. Now that I have two quinarii of my own, I can see how appealing they are, not despite but because of their tiny size compared to the denarii. [USER=89211]@eparch[/USER] and [USER=75525]@rrdenarius[/USER], I love both of your examples of the Memmius/Quirinus denarius, and agree the type in general is very artistic. I admit that I prefer the kind with the curved obverse legend, but don't really think it makes a huge difference. Interestingly, neither Crawford nor RSC (based on Babelon) assigns different catalog numbers to the two stylistic varieties of obverse legend, even though I seem to recall their doing so on occasion for other types, even without substantive differences in the legend. Here is a link to the page of the Schaefer Roman Republican Die Project with all the different dies Schaefer noted for Crawford 427/2, which (according to Crawford) had only 39 different obverse dies and 42 reverse dies: [URL]http://numismatics.org/archives/ark:/53695/schaefer.rrdp.processed_400-499#schaefer_clippings_output_427-2_01_sd[/URL]. I have not (or, at least, not yet) gone through the page carefully to count how many dies there are of each type, or to look for matches to my coin's dies, but I do get the impression that the curved obverse legend is at least somewhat more common.[/QUOTE]
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