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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2525699, member: 74282&quot;]Crawford is the best starting point, and Crawford numbers are generally the best language for collectors discussing the series but it&#039;s certainly not the last word. <a href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/15757344/Andrew_McCabe_The_Anonymous_Struck_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Roman_Republic_in_Essays_in_Honour_of_Roberto_Russo_Witschonke_van_Alfen_eds_2013" rel="nofollow">Andrew McCabe&#039;s paper on anonymous bronzes</a> is free(but requires login) and discusses various types not fully identified by Crawford.&nbsp; Hersh&#039;s &quot;Additional overstrikes&quot; from ANS Museum Notes 1987(unfortunately only available via JSTOR) includes some previously-unpublished bronze overstrikes as well though much of the information is summarized in McCabe&#039;s paper. Roberto Russo&#039;s paper on unpublished RR bronzes in &quot;Essays Hersh&quot; identified several new types as well, mostly unpublished denominations related to existing series but some of his findings suggest that existing series should be broken up into multiple series based on different characteristics.</p><p><br /></p><p>With respect to attributions, it&#039;s believed that most RR bronze and silver was minted at the Rome mint and the early bronze and denarius system silver minted at the Rome mint follow a certain stylistic progression. Where it becomes difficult is the massive amount of Second Punic War-era field coinage. Spain, Sicily, Luceria, Etruria, Apulia, Sardinia and Rome were all minting coins during this period, and there seem to have been other military mints sporadically minting coinage as well. Luckily, for the most part these issues are mint marked, and where they&#039;re not, style can be used as a determining factor because these mints seemed to use local engravers. While it&#039;s true that there are potentially differing interpretations of hoard and find evidence, for the most part the finds do tend to cluster around particular areas. Sometimes these can be only generalized to large areas(I.e. &quot;central Italy&quot;, &quot;southeast Italy&quot;, etc) but tend to paint a reasonably good picture of the geographic distribution of these different military field mints.</p><p><br /></p><p>Much of the evidence for this is discussed in either Crawford&#039;s RRC or the Companion book &quot;Roman Republic Coin Hoards&quot;, as well as various excavation reports. There&#039;s a whole rabbit-hole that can be gone down if one is interested in really deeply studying the attributions but for the average student who just wants to discover the coinage and get a feel for the various styles and things, my top free suggestions are:</p><ul> <li>The McCabe paper discussed above</li> <li>NAC 61 and 63, the RBW collection, or if you&#039;re willing to spend a bit the combined volume of the two published by NAC(the individual PDFs were available from NAC&#039;s site at one time. If no longer available, PM me)</li> <li><a href="http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://andrewmccabe.ancients.info" rel="nofollow">Andrew McCabe&#039;s website</a> which includes many RR coins arranged by Crawford as well as specialist pages on the coinage of Canusium and Luceria</li> <li>The Goodman Collection, CNG 43, Triton I, 45, 46 and 47 available online free, courtesy of <a href="https://issuu.com/cngcoins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://issuu.com/cngcoins" rel="nofollow">CNG on ISSUU</a> or alternatively, CNG 43 with RBW&#039;s annotations available on my website <a href="http://respublicacoins.com/files/CNG43RBW.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://respublicacoins.com/files/CNG43RBW.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a></li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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