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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2822032, member: 76194&quot;]First of all, [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER] , fantastic OP posts. I loved every second I spent reading it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have an early Denarius like the OP&#039;s, but I have some coins to contribute.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, this coin minted the year after the Third Punic War ended shows that Roman coiners we&#039;re still emulating OP&#039;s Denarius almost seven decades later. The design was that influential.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]662820[/ATTACH]</p><p>M. Junius Silanus</p><p>AR Denarius</p><p><br /></p><p>And my second coin is from the period OP&#039;s coin was minted. My Victoriatus was minted for the Roman campaigns against Hanibal in southern Italy, by a Roman military mint, at a time the Roman army was starting to become confident enough to challenge Hanibal in open battle again.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]662824[/ATTACH]</p><p>AR Victoriatus</p><p>*Traveling Military Mint, Second Punic War.</p><p>* Most of the hoard patina is still intact, including soil from the site the coin was burried.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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