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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3784760, member: 90666&quot;]Series: ROMA, H, Anchor Q, H-Q Anonymous, V, spearhead (Apulia and Sardinia)</p><p><br /></p><p>Some notable coins:</p><p>- ROMA monogram, extremely rare denarius and sestertius, and very rare quinarius</p><p>- anchor and Q as - extremely rare</p><p>- triens, quadrans and sextans from an anonymous series related to H and Q and L, published in McCabe, Essays Russo, group F1 (plate coins)</p><p>- V uncia, not in Crawford, type published by Russo in Essays Hersh, second known example</p><p>- Russo in 1998 divided the spearhead series into three groups, two 2nd Punic war and one later; McCabe in 2015 assigned the first two groups to Apulia and Sardinia. Here we see an as and uncia from Apulia, and an as from Sardinia, all extremely rare</p><p>- spearhead denarius is ex Brunacci collection, Santamaria 1958</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1010659[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1010660[/ATTACH] </p><p>Crawford 84/1 Denarius Obv: hd Roma r, X Rev: Dioscuri r, ROMA monogram. Provenance: RBW coll. ex Leu Jun.2006</p><p>Crawford 84/2 Quinarius Obv: hd Roma r, V Rev: Dioscuri r, ROMA monogram. Provenance: Lanz 80 (26 May 1997) lot 230 (est.Dm 600)</p><p>Crawford 84/3 Sestertius Obv: hd Roma r, IIS Rev: Dioscuri r, ROMA monogram. Provenance: Gorny Mosch - Giessener Münzhandlung 204 (5 Mar.2012) lot 1900 (EUR 1700) ex Dix Noonan Webb Coinex 2007 (27 Sep.2007) lot 2420</p><p>Crawford 84/6 Quadrans Obv: hd Hercules r, ooo Rev: prow r, Roma monogram. Provenance: RBW coll. ex Jonathan Kern (30 Mar.1998)</p><p>Crawford 85/1b Quinarius Obv: hd Roma r Rev: Dioscuri r, H behind horses. Provenance: Malter XXXVII 17 Apr.1988 lot 73</p><p>Crawford 85/3 Semis Obv: hd Saturn r Rev: prow r, H before. Provenance: Aes Rude Titano 72 (1 Mar.1998) lot 103</p><p>Crawford 85/7 Uncia Obv: hd Roma r, o Rev: prow r, H before. Provenance: Tkalec retail 2008 ex Bombarda coll.</p><p>Crawford 86/B1 As Obv: hd Saturn r, S Rev: prow r, S, Q above, anchor. Provenance: RBW coll. ex NAC 14 Sep.1996</p><p>Crawford 86/B2 Semis Obv: hd Saturn r, S Rev: prow r, S, Q above, anchor.</p><p>Crawford 86/A2 Triens Obv: hd&nbsp; Minerva r, oooo Rev: prow r, oooo, Q. Provenance: UBS59 (29 Jan.2004) lot 6125 (part) Wagner coll.</p><p>Crawford 86/A3 Quadrans Obv: hd Hercules r, ooo Rev: prow r, ROMA above, Q before. Provenance: Münzen Medaillen DE 19 (16 May 2006) lot 574 Gibboni coll.</p><p>Crawford 86 variety Triens Obv: head of Minerva r. / oooo Rev: prow r, staff through corvus / ROMA / / oooo. In NAC61 this series is attributed to the staff series on account of the line through the corvus. The style is more akin to Apulia specially Q series, and this obverse is sometimes paired with a Luceria style reverse. Provenance: Lanz 163 (7 Dec.2016) lot 160 ex NAC 9 (16 Apr.1996) lot 572</p><p>Crawford 86 variety Quadrans Obv: head of Hercules r. wearing lion’s skin, behind three pellets Rev: prow r, staff through corvus. RBW. See notes for triens above. Provenance: NAC61 (5 Oct.2011) lot 481 RBW coll. = RBW493</p><p>Crawford 86 variety Sextans Obv: hd Mercury r, oo, this obverse also shared with normal Rome mint reverse prow types Rev: prow r, oo, ROMA, prow has fighting platform with club of style Luceria. Provenance: Nomisma 41 (8 May 2010) lot 63 ex Titano second series 5 (4 June 2000) lot 81</p><p>Crawford 87/5 Sextans Obv: hd Mercury r, oo Rev: prow r, oo, V. Provenance: NAC G (10 Apr.1997) lot 1246</p><p>Crawford 87 Uncia (not in RRC) Obv: hd Roma r, ooo Rev: prow r, V, published by Roberto Russo in essays Hersh 1998, not in Crawford, second published example after the Essays Hersh = NAC 7 example . Provenance: gift of Roberto Russo</p><p>Crawford 88/2b Denarius Obv: hd Roma r Rev: Dioscuri r, spearhead r. Provenance: RBW coll. ex Spink 30 Nov.1985 ex Santamaria (24 Feb.1958) lot 59 Brunacci coll.</p><p>Crawford 88/3a As Obv: hd Janus Rev: prow r, spearhead right above, I above. Provenance: CNG85 (15 Sep.2010) lot 768</p><p>Crawford 88/3b As Obv: hd Janus Rev: prow r, spearhead up before, I above. Provenance: CNG79 (17 Sep.2008) lot 805 V.C. coll. ex NAC P (1 May 2005) lot 1661</p><p>Crawford 88/8 Uncia Obv: hd Roma, o behind Rev: prow r, before spearhead upright, below pellets, above ROMA. Roberto Russo, Essays Hersh, 48. Russo splits the coinage into two main issues, probably from Sardinia and Apulia (this type), and one later issue.. Provenance: Vecchi 3 (13 Sep.1996) lot 211 Fallani collection[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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