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Message:: [QUOTE="red_spork, post: 4787080, member: 74282"]There is a variety that's a little less busy, Crawford 422/1a, noticeably scarcer than 422/1b. Not my coin, this one was sold by Roma Numismatics in September of last year:[ATTACH=full]1163747[/ATTACH] This coin however is mine, an extremely rare solid silver hybrid of 422/1a obverse and 422/1b reverse. 5 examples are known from 3 die pairs, and all of the known dies are linked to dies used for 422/1a and 422/1b, so this was just struck during the transition between the two varieties at the mint while some old dies were still in use. [ATTACH=full]1163748[/ATTACH] Roman Republic AR denarius(3.80g, 18.31mm). M. Aemilius Scaurus and P. Plautius Hypsaeus, 58 BC, Rome mint. Camel right; before, kneeling figure, holding reins in left hand and olive-branch tied with fillet in right hand; above, M SCAVR; on either side, EX SC; below, AED CVR. Border of dots / Jupiter in quadriga left, holding reins in left hand and hurling thunderbolt with right hand, ; above, P HVPSAEVS; AED CVR in two lines. Below, C HVPSAE COS; PREIVER in two lines. On right, CAPTVM upwards. Border of dots. Jordan Montgomery & Richard Schaefer, "A Doubted Variety of M. Aemilius Scaurus and P. Plautius Hypsaeus Vindicated", KOINON I, 2018, fig. 1(this coin), Crawford 422/1-(obverse 422/1a, reverse 422/1b), cf. Bahrfeldt, Nachtrage i, pl. I, 9[/QUOTE]