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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 5035744, member: 74282&quot;]I&#039;ve shared this one here before but it is by far my favorite &quot;second chance&quot; coin in my collection. It has a great provenance that means a lot to me, and many of us here at Cointalk. I first saw this coin at the end of 2015 in CNG e-auction 364. I really liked it and it was on my bid list but I simply didn&#039;t have the money for it by the time it got there as I&#039;d won another coin and even if I did it hammered above my predetermined max bid and was bought by [USER=44183]@stevex6[/USER], a former member here. I regretted not bidding, and was always a bit envious when Steve posted the coin here, so when he consigned his collection for sale a few years later I knew exactly which coin I wanted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thankfully everything was listed fixed price so I didn&#039;t have to try to compete for it at auction, even if the price was basically the same that was too much for me a few years before. I also found the Knobloch provenance, a very desirable one for RR coins, while doing my pre-purchase research which further cemented my &quot;I&#039;ve gotta buy this coin&quot; feelings.</p><p><br /></p><p>Aside from the fact that it was owned by a friend, this coin is really special not because it&#039;s the nicest CA Triens out there, but because they basically come in two flavors: those where you can prominently see the undertype(which is usually this type or one related type), and those where the overstrike has obliterated it and you can barely make any of it out. Usually the coins where you can see the undertype are an ugly mess, but this coin manages to capture the undertype quite well while still retaining a very attractive overstrike. If I&#039;m buying a type that is commonly overstruck on something else I will always opt for an example with a clear overstrike so for me this is a perfect example and unimprovable. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1202055[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic Æ Triens(20mm, 5.88g, 12h), anonymous(&quot;CA&quot; series), 209-195 B.C., Canusium(?) mint. Helmeted head of Minerva right; above, •••• / Prow right; above, ROMA; below, ••••; to right, CA. Crawford 100/3; Sydenham 309c</p><p>Overstruck on Oiniadai, Akarnania Zeus/Acheloüs, cf. BCD Akarnania 345-348 for undertype. For CA triens overstruck on Oiniadai cf. Hersh NC 1953, 14 and cf. Crawford Table XVIII, 91</p><p>Ex [USER=44183]@stevex6[/USER] Collection via coin.ages, eBay, January 27 2018, ex RBW Collection, CNG e-auction 364, December 2 2015, lot 90, <a href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/137/category/3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gallery.respublicacoins.com/picture.php?/137/category/3" rel="nofollow">ex Stacks Coin Galleries, August 20 1986, lot 117, ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection, Stacks May 4 1978, lot 90</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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