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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 3269624, member: 75525&quot;]I collect money used by Romans during their republic from 1000 to 30 BC. Historians would differ on the start and end dates, but they are good time boundaries for my collection. Most of what I have is listed in either Roman Republican Coinage by Crawford or Italian Cast Coinage by Vecchi. Due to cost I have avoided struck coins issued by cities outside of Rome (Greek colonial).</p><p><br /></p><p>My collection includes several sub groups:</p><p>·&nbsp; Cast bronze that could have been used to pay soldiers at Veii about a century before Rome started producing coins.</p><p>·&nbsp; Scales, scale weights and coins showing scales.</p><p>·&nbsp; Coins with plumb bobs or levels</p><p>·&nbsp; Coins with astragalous (knuckle bones)</p><p><br /></p><p>10.&nbsp; Alexander the Great tetradrachm – the vendor did not give details on the coin. I found a similar coin online and the description is below the pics. If someone can identify the coin, please let me know.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]862129[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]862130[/ATTACH] </p><p>Ancients Greek</p><p><br /></p><p>MACEDONIAN KINGDOM. Alexander III the Great (336-323 BC). AR tetradrachm (15.98 gm). Late posthumous issue of Perga, ?BC.</p><p>Obv - Head of Heracles right, wearing lion-skin headdress, paws tied before neck</p><p>Rev - AΛEΞANΔPOY, Zeus seated left on backless throne, right leg drawn back, feet on ground line, eagle in right hand, scepter in left; KO in left field, Seleucid anchor countermark in rectangle in outer right field. Price ?</p><p><br /></p><p>9.&nbsp; Aes Grave Triens</p><p>[ATTACH=full]862131[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]862132[/ATTACH] </p><p>Aes Grave Triens, Umbria, Tuder. 220-200 BC</p><p>Obv – hand in caestus</p><p>Rev – two clubs; between clubs, TVTDE; four dots (2 to right and 2 to left of clubs)</p><p>32 grams; 30 mm</p><p>T.V. 165; HN Italia 47.</p><p>Buon BB. <i>Patina verde. </i>R. </p><p><br /></p><p>8.&nbsp; Obol with astralagoi</p><p>[ATTACH=full]862135[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]862134[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Cilicia, TARSOS (389-375 a.C.) AR Obol (9,4 mm. - 0.63 gr.). D.\: Female kneeling left, tossing astralagoi. R.\: Male head right. SNG France 239. BB+. R.</p><p><br /></p><p>7.&nbsp; Roman Republic, Sextans, Semilibral series, 217-215 BC, Ae. The first coined sextans.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]862136[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]862137[/ATTACH] </p><p>Obv - Head of Mercury, right, above two dots</p><p>Rev - Prow of ship, right; above ROMA, with archaic A; In Ex - two dots</p><p>31.2 grams; 31.1 mm; BB +</p><p>Dark Green Patina.</p><p>Cr. 38/5</p><p><br /></p><p>Below are two later asses and the early sextans.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]862138[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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