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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3813111, member: 90666&quot;]series: C.CENSORIN, L.RVBRI DOSSEN, VER GAR OGVL, M FAN L CRIT, L.IVLI BVRSIO, C. LICINIVS MACER, P.FOURIVS CRASSIPES, L.SVLLA IMPER ITERVM, P.CREPVSI, C.MAMIL LIMETANVS, L.CENSOR </p><p><br /></p><p>some notable coins</p><p>- RRC 346/3 Censorinus type with Kings Numa Pompilia and Ancus Marcus has historically been a very popular coin, often illustrated in early modern books; from the 1500s to 1700s it was believed such coins might have been struck close to the time of the Kings of Rome; this from my book Medaglie, Inscrittioni et altre Antichita, Antonio Augusto, Rome 1592</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1016391[/ATTACH]and this fabulous engraving from Canini&#039;s Iconografia, also in my library:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1016392[/ATTACH] perhaps the single best early modern depiction of a Roman Republican struck bronze I know of, and very close to being my actual coin</p><p>- RRC 348/4 quinarius is exceptionally well struck for the type</p><p>- RRC 350 GAR OGVL VER series, I have denarii whose reverse legends starts with each of the three names (all very rare) as well as the anonymous types. The names, so shortened, are not firmly established. We tend to go with Gargilia, Ogulnia and Vergilia but there remains other possibilities</p><p>- RRC 351/1 rare Fannia and Critonia denarius is ex Mario Ratto 1928</p><p>- RRC 356/1 with reverse gouge is the main plate illustration coin from Clive Stannard&#039;s explanation of how the al-marco weight adjustment process worked cf Stannard in Metallurgy in Numismatics 3, 1993, pp.45-70, this coin pl.2,12.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i>&quot;Ancient mints sometimes adjusted weights by gouging a sliver, occasionally slivers, of metal from the face of a flan, before striking the coin. The results are characteristic and easily recognizable. Examples in silver are known from Lycia, Paeonia (King Audoleon), Velia, and the Roman Republic, and there is a gold example in the coinage of Constantine I. The frequency of the use of gouging in the Roman Republic makes it possible to study whether weight adjustment was carried out al pezzo (which means that each individual flan was brought within the tolerances of the weight standard for the issue), or whether it was done al marco (which means not paying too much attention to the weights of individual coins, but ensuring that a fixed number of flans were made from a fixed weight of metal). This question can be investigated by looking at the histograms of large number of denarii, in issues known to use gouging. In al marco adjustment, a block of flans is cast a little heavy. The right number of flans for the desired weight of coins is counted out (and the overall weight will, of course be, too heavy). Flans that look heavy are successively picked out one by one, without too much attention to the weight, and a sliver of metal is gouged off. The gouged flans are tossed back into the block, until the overall weight is reduced to the correct overall weight. Figure at: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/3742991304/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/3742991304/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/3742991304/</a> models this process. As a result of adjustment al marco, the linked histogram is negatively skewed (the size of the upper leg has been reduced), and has high kurtosis (the center of the histogram is higher than a normal distribution.) 8,649 denarii from between 144 and 43 BC were checked to identify issues with gouging. 1.34% of all the coins looked at were gouged. The weight histograms of 4,587 Roman Republican denarii in the issues known to be gouged was negatively skewed, with high kurtosis, showing that they had been adjusted al marco. In these issues, 2.53% of the coins showed signs of gouging. A related Stannard reference with additional material on same subject is at <a href="https://www.academia.edu/1443037/Weight_adjustment_al_marco_in_Antiquity_and_the_Athenian_decadrachm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/1443037/Weight_adjustment_al_marco_in_Antiquity_and_the_Athenian_decadrachm" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/1443037/Weight_adjustment_al_marco_in_Antiquity_and_the_Athenian_decadrachm</a>.&quot; [this summary Clive Stannard]</i></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>- RRC 359 Sulla denarius is ex Voirol coll. M&amp;M 1968</p><p>- RRC 360 Crepusius and Limetanus denarius is ex Leo Benz coll. (Lanz 88) and Dr. E.P. Nicolas coll. (Leu 17) and = Banti MARCIA 92 (Rarity 7, due legend and type variety). Die number is II (2) from a very large number (there is no die I/1 and no unnumbered die) and there are several variations on this coin from the subsequent very large issue. I always find it interesting when several very notable collectors choose such a coin despite of its wear. And now me.</p><p>- RRC 346/1 L.Censor is also ex Nicolas</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1016393[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1016394[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Details of the coin types and their provenances are listed below the Flickr image here:</p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48979808047/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48979808047/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48979808047/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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