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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2686793, member: 74282&quot;]Nice work. The quinarius is an interesting denomination and your page is a great primer and certainly something I will be sharing next time a new collector confusedly asks &quot;quinarius?&quot;. I do think though that it might be worth mentioning the silver sestertius here as well, as it also had a resurgence during the period of the social war and the Imperatorial period.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion one of the most interesting things about the early quinarii(and sestertii), as pointed out by Charles Hersh in one of his hoard reports, is that they all have split visors - the only peaked visor quinarius issue I&#039;m aware of is the exceedingly rare issue with prawn which I assume is also the late first period issue you reference. Crawford attempts to place the peaked visor Roma/Dioscuri issues right alongside the split visor issues chronologically but this cannot be the case in light of the fact that almost none of the peaked visor issues are known in the quinarius denomination even though there were evidently many large issues of peaked visor denarii. To me, this lack of peaked visor quinarii highly suggests that the denomination was no longer being minted by the time the peaked denarii were introduced and should probably be moved at least a few years down the timeline, maybe even a decade or more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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