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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3785329, member: 90666&quot;]Series: quadrigatus coinage and related prow and collateral struck bronzes</p><p><br /></p><p>Notable coins:</p><p>- RRC 28/5 silver as (only time such denomination ever struck) = Debernardi Legrand RBN CLXI (2015) coin Ht1/3-9, showing these tiny silver coins were struck in Spain</p><p>- RRC 29/4 drachm is ex Frederick Hastings Rindge coll. (see earlier posts)</p><p>- RRC 30/1 is ex Superior Galleries 7 June 1987 lot 4293 Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett, Beverly Hillbillies) coll. ex Glendining 4 Nov.1982 Duke of Northumberland coll. lot 235 = Rear-Admiral W.H. Smyth Roman Consular Coins 1856 tablet XVI/47 (weight as 100.3 grains = 6.50 grams)</p><p>- RRC 32/1 is ex Bourgey (17 Jun.1959) lot 596, coll. Hervé Chandon Comte de Briailles (1900 -1954), wine maker (aka the founder of Moet and Chandon Champagne house) and benefactor to the BnF collection</p><p>- RRC 42/1 corn-ear didrachm - very rare and among the better condition extant examples</p><p>- RRC 28/3 billon quadrigatus with likely less than 30% silver; Clive Stannard has suggested that this debased coinage may have been the coinage of the entrapped garrison in the citadel in Tarentum and issued concurrent with the first denarius coinage elsewhere in Apulia around 212 BC</p><p>- the two bronze seriesc, collateral (Hercules Centaur etc.) and prows, are just beautiful <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1010767[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1010768[/ATTACH]</p><p>Crawford 28/3 Didrachm Obv: hd Dioscuri, Janiform, round trunc. (early style) Rev: Jupiter + Victory in quad r, incuse rectangle. Provenance: Künker 243 (21 Nov.2013) lot 4672 ex&nbsp; ex Gorny - Giessener Münzhandlung 60 (5 Oct.1992) lot 319</p><p>Crawford 28/4 Drachm Obv: hd Dioscuri, Janiform, round trunc. (early style) Rev: Jupiter and Victory in quadriga l, ROMA.</p><p>Crawford 28/5 Libella As Obv: horse r, ROMA Rev: Jupiter in quad r, Victory behind, incuse rectangle. Provenance: Aureo 121 (19 Dec.2000) lot 3 Tiber coll. = Debernardi Legrand RBN CLXI (2015) coin Ht1/3-9</p><p>Crawford 29/3 Didrachm Obv: hd Janus, angular trunc (early style) Rev: Jupiter + Victory in quad r, relief on raised trapezoid. Provenance: Freeman &amp; Sear MBS12 (28 Oct.2005) lot 267</p><p>Crawford 29/4 Drachm Obv: hd Janus, convex rounded truncation, large head Rev: Jupiter + Victory in leaping quad l, exergue legend. Provenance: CNG47 (16th Sep.1998) lot 1042 Goodman coll. ex Malter XXX (7 June 1985) lot 1450 Frederick Hastings Rindge Collection (1857–1905) collection on loan to Boston Museum of Fine Arts cf. 1902 curator&#039;s report</p><p>Crawford 30/1 Didrachm Obv: hd Janus, fat face and neck Rev: Jupiter + Victory in quad r, relief on raised trapezoid. Provenance: Superior Galleries 7 June 1987 lot 4293 Buddy Ebsen (Jed Clampett, Beverly Hillbillies) coll. ex Glendining 4 Nov.1982 Duke of Northumberland coll. lot 235 = Rear-Admiral W.H. Smyth Roman Consular Coins 1856 tablet XVI/47 (weight as 100.3 grains = 6.50 grams)</p><p>Crawford 32/1 Didrachm Obv: hd Janus narrow head, convex rounded truncation Rev: Jupiter, Victory in leaping quadriga identical style to RRC pl.III-12 = Cr.32/1. Provenance: Bourgey (17 Jun.1959) lot 596, coll. Hervé Chandon Comte de Briailles (1900 -1954), wine maker and benefactor to the BnF collection</p><p>Crawford 42/1 Didrachm Obv: hd Janus Rev: Victory, jupiter in quad r, cornear. Provenance: Freeman &amp; Sear FPL 8 (Fall 2003) lot 271</p><p>Crawford 28/3 Didrachm Obv: hd Janus, curved trunc. (late style) Rev: Jupiter + Victory in quad r, line relief trapezoid. Provenance: Joel Creusy - Bremens Belleville - Pierre Egbers coll. (26 Nov.2014) lot 78 (dating from 1930s) with France export permit no. 159230</p><p>Crawford 28/3 Didrachm Obv: hd Janus, flat truncation broad head cf.Cr.pl.IV,8 Rev: Jupiter with Victory in quadriga r, legend relief in line box, debased silver. Provenance: Amateur English Scholar (not in NAC92) purchased 1998</p><p>Crawford 38/5 Sextans Obv: hd Mercury r, oo Rev: prow r, oo. Provenance: Pierre Crinon</p><p>Crawford 38/6 Uncia Obv: hd Roma l Rev: prow r, ROMA, McCabe group AA semilibral with waves in a triangular keel area, wing, and club in fighting platform. Legend ROMA looks like ROXA. Provenance: Titano 28 (3rd June 2007) lot 47</p><p>Crawford 38/7 Semuncia Obv: hd Mercury r Rev: prow r, ROMA. Provenance: Roberto Russo coll. ticket dated 2002</p><p>Crawford 38/8 Quartuncia Obv: hd Roma r Rev: prow r, two lines at rostrum level, ROMA, McCabe anon bronze series AA.</p><p>Crawford 39/1 Triens Obv: diademed female head right (Diana) behind, four pellets.&nbsp; Rev: Hercules fighting centaur, holding his hair in l. hand and club in r.; before, four pellets. . Provenance: RBW coll. ex H.Kreindler 10th Dec.1993 with older undated German ticket</p><p>Crawford 39/2 Quadrans Obv: hd Hercules r Rev: bull r, snake. Provenance: Lanz 36 (21 Apr.1986) lot 527.</p><p>Crawford 39/3 Sextans Obv: Wolf &amp; twins, oo Rev: eagle stg r, oo. Provenance: Sternberg 10 (25 Nov.1980) lot 217 ex Bonmham&#039;s Vecchi 1 (22 May 1980) lot 250</p><p>Crawford 39/4 Uncia Obv: Sol facing, o Rev: Sol facing, Crescent moon, two stars, o. The globe above the crescent is the value mark, not a full moon or sun.</p><p>Crawford 39/5 Semuncia Obv: female hd r turreted Rev: horseman r.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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