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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 3358879, member: 75525&quot;]You can probably guess that the left quadrans was minted later than the right one. both are anonymous with symbols: elephant and staff.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]889883[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]889884[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>some details on the coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>elephant series quadrans</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, Struck Bronze, Anonymous series with elephant&#039;s head. AE Quadrans, 128 BC. The moneyer is probably a Metellus who is remembering L.Caecilius Metellus, Cos. 251, who captured Hasdrubal&#039;s (of Carthage) elephants in 250 BC.</p><p>Obv -&nbsp; Head of Hercules right; behind, three pellets.</p><p>Rev - Prow right; above, elephant&#039;s head right and before three pellets. Below, ROMA.</p><p>VF</p><p>3.24 grams</p><p>17.0 mm</p><p>Cr. 262/4</p><p>B.41.</p><p><br /></p><p>The staff series quadrans is struck over an earlier &amp; larger Roma / Prow uncia. I have two sets of pics below to show rotation of the over and under types.</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, Staff series. AE Quadrans, c. 208 BC, Central Italy. </p><p>Obv - Head of Hercules right, wearing lion&#039;s skin; behind, three pellets. </p><p>Rev - Prow of galley right; ROMA (with archeic A) and staff (the line above the deck and to right of small box on deck) above; three (more like 2 and a half) dots below</p><p>Traces of double striking. The under type is an earlier semilibral uncia, Cr-38/6. Crawford lists over strikes and lists this type as #99 on pg 116. He notes three examples of this type.</p><p>About VF, Dark patina, Very rare (seller’s words). I found a few examples of the staff quadrans, but no over strikes. Note that there are two staff series RR bronze coins. the description below is from an NAC auction in 2011. My coin looks like a similar reverse.</p><p>11.2 grams</p><p>25.1 – 25.9 mm</p><p>Cr. 106/7a over type / Cr. 38/6 under type</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]889895[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]889896[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]889901[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]889902[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]889904[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]889905[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]889934[/ATTACH] </p><p>Rev. ROMA Prow r.; above, staff and below, three pellets. Sydenham –. Crawford –. Very rare. Delightful light green tone and about extremely fine We have attributed this quadrans to the staff series, since two lines can be seen on either side of the flat-roofed deckhouse (corvo), which we interpret as a staff placed in an atypical position. The style is completely different from the two preceding specimens, yet typical of central Italian coins. Moreover, there are at least four completely distinct styles known to recur on all denominations of the staff series.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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