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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2321199, member: 74282&quot;]I don&#039;t wanna be that guy, but it is wrong. A denarius at this time was 10 asses. A quadrans was a quarter of an as or 3 unciae, so it wasn&#039;t half a denarius but 1/40 of a denarius. And an uncia as you said was 1/12 an as.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a side note: the denarius likely didn&#039;t exist when the original uncia that makes the undertype was minted. Crawford 38 series &quot;semilibral&quot; bronzes date to circa 217-215 BC, but most researchers agree the first denarii were minted in 214, 212 or 211 BC. The over type, which is from the slightly later Crawford 56 &quot;sextantal&quot; series dates to circa 211 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: for some reason when I originally posted this it uploaded a file. That was actually a mistake so I deleted it. The coin there was a related overstrike and likely from the same time period as this one but I need more time to study it before I share it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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