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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 2519671, member: 9204&quot;]<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/normal_00031x00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>ROME</b></p> <p style="text-align: center">PB Tessera (17mm, 2.84 g)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Amor standing left, holding an uncertain object</p> <p style="text-align: center">Wreath</p> <p style="text-align: center">Rostovtsev 2006.1, pl. VIII, 24 = Scholz 368 (this coin, illustrated)</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Ex Trau Collection </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>Tesserae usually are not nice enough to sell in older auctions, much less illustrate. I was fortunate to acquire a few pieces from the scraps of the great Trau collection, the regular Roman coins of which were sold by Hess in 1935. The tesserae, however, were not included in that sale, and I have thusfar been unable to trace the path of their ownership. They were, at least, published by Scholz in 1893, with most of them listed as well in Rostowzew&#039;s 1903 sylloge. The coin above is illustrated in Rostowzew&#039;s plates.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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