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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2666927, member: 74282&quot;]Yours is an example from the &quot;VB&quot; series, Crawford 95 minted at an uncertain Second Punic War-era military mint that is traditionally associated with Vibo Valentia. It comes in a &quot;large head&quot; variety like yours, a <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=287444" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=287444" rel="nofollow">&quot;small head&quot; variety</a>,&nbsp; and a rare fully anonymous variety in the <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1102253" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1102253" rel="nofollow">same style as the &quot;small head&quot; variety but lacking the VB</a>. Kenneth Friedman and Richard Schaefer even argued that the anonymous variety(and thereby the signed VB varieties) are probably linked to the Crawford 90 type I posted above in their <a href="http://stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/AnonymousVictoriatii.html#95-1c" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/AnonymousVictoriatii.html#95-1c" rel="nofollow">article on anonymous victoriati</a>. All in all, a pretty cool victoriatus and a nice way to start collecting the denomination.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as a full ID for it, here&#039;s how I&#039;d catalog it:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic AR Victoriatus, Anonymous, ca. 211-208 B.C. Uncertain mint(traditionally, Vibo Valentia). Laureate head of Jupiter right. Border of dots / Victory standing right, crowning trophy with wreath; between, VB; in exergue, ROMA. Line border. Crawford 95/1a[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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