Auction 331 | RES PVBLICA
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Lotto 1 Description
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Lotto 2 Mint: Rome. Right hand; three pellets (mark of value) to l.; Rv. Two barley grains; three pellets (mark of value) between. Crawford 14/4; Vecchi 29; HN Italy 271; RBW 5. Light green patina. Good very fine.
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Lotto 3 Mint: Rome. Right hand; three pellets (mark of value) to l.; Rv. Two barley grains; three pellets (mark of value) between. Crawford 14/4; ICC 29; HN Italy 271; RBW 5. Brownish green patina. Very fine. Untouched.
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Lotto 4 Mint: Rome. Scallop shell; two pellets (mark of value) below; Rv. Caduceus; two pellets (mark of value) across fields. Crawford 14/5; Vecchi 30; HN Italy 272. Light brown patina. Very fine. Untouched.
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Lotto 5 Mint: Rome. Scallop shell between two pellets (mark of value); Rv. Caduceus between two pellets (mark of value). Crawford 14/5; Thurlow & Vecchi 5a; HN Italy 272. Untouched dark patina. Good very fine.
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Lotto 6 Mint: Rome. Astragalus (knucklebone); beside, one pellet (mark of value); Rv. One pellet (mark of value). Crawford 14/6; Sydenham 13; Thurlow-Vecchi 6; HN Italy 273. Good very fine. Untouched.
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Lotto 7 Libral standard. Mint: Rome. Head of Roma r., wearing Phrygian cap; – (mark of value) behind; Rv. Wheel of six spokes; | (mark of value) between upper spokes. Crawford 24/3; Vecchi 66; Haeberlin pl. 24, 4-10; HN Italy 326. Dark shiny patina. Good very fine / extremely fine.
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Lotto 8 Libral standard. Mint: Rome. Tortoise on raised disk; Rv. Wheel of six spokes; two pellets (mark of value) between spokes; all on raised disk. Crawford 24/7; Vecchi 71; HN Italy 330. Light green patina. Very fine.
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Lotto 9 Mint: Rome. Scallop shell; two pellets (mark of value) across fields; Rv. Caduceus; sickle to r.; two pellets (mark of value) across fields. Crawford 25/8; Vecchi 52; HN Italy 304; RBW 45. Greenish patina. Good very fine.
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Lotto 10 Reduced libral standard. Mint: Rome. Laureate, bearded head of Janus on raised disk; – (mark of value) below; Rv. Prow of war galley r. on raised disk; I (mark of value) above. Crawford 35/1; Vecchi 74; Thurlow-Vecchi 51; HN Italy 337. Olive green patina. Untouched. Good very fine.
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Lotto 11 Reduced libral standard. Mint: Rome. Laureate, bearded head of Janus on raised disk; – (mark of value) below; Rv. Prow of war galley r. on raised disk; I (mark of value) above. Crawford 35/1; Vecchi 74; Thurlow-Vecchi 51; HN Italy 337. Dark patina with lighter hues. Good very fine.
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Lotto 12 Reduced libral standard. Mint: Rome. Laureate head of Saturn left; S (mark of value) horizontally below; all on raised disk; Rv. Prow of galley right; S (mark of value) above; all on raised disk. Crawford 35/2; Vecchi 76; Sydenham 73; HN Italy 338; RBW 86. Light green patina. Untouched. Extremely fine.
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Lotto 13 Reduced libral standard. Mint: Rome. Head of Hercules l., wearing lion’s skin, three pellets (mark of value) behind; Rv. Prow r., three pellets (mark of value) below. Crawford 35/4; Haeberlin pl. 18, 1-9; Vecchi 80; Thurlow-Vecchi 54; HN Italy 340. Light green patina with some encrustations. Untouched. Extremely fine.
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Lotto 14 Reduced libral standard. Mint: Rome. Helmeted head of Roma to l.; one pellet (mark of value) behind; Rv. Prow of galley to r.; one pellet (mark of value) below. ICC 83; Crawford 35/6; HN Italy 342. Green patina. Extremely fine.
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Lotto 15 Libral standard. Rome, circa 225-217 BC. Head of Hercules l., wearing lion skin headdress; Rv. Prow to l.; three pellets (mark of value) below. Crawford 36/4; Haeberlin pl. 22, 15; HN Italy 340; ICC 91. Appealing dark green patina. Good very fine.
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Lotto 16 Mint: Rome. Laureate and bearded head of Janus; Rv. Prow of galley to l.; I (mark of value) above. Crawford 38/1; Vecchi 93. Brown patina. Untouched. Good very fine / extremely fine.
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Lotto 17 Mint: Rome. Head of bearded Janus on a raised disk; Rv. Prow of galley l.; I (mark of value) above; all on a raised disk. Crawford 41/5a; Vecchi 105; Sydenham 101; RBW 112–4. Brownish green patina. Untouched. About extremely fine.
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Lotto 18 Mint: possibly Volsinii. Club; Rv. Two pellets. Vecchi 199; HN Italy 54. For a tentative identification of this issue's minting authority, cf. M. Crawford 'The oval series of aes grave' in CH 9 (2002), pp. 269-270. Good very fine. Untouched light green patina.
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Lotto 19 Mint: possibly Volsinii. Club; Rv. Two pellets. Vecchi 199; HN Italy 54. For a tentative identification of this issue's minting authority, cf. M. Crawford 'The oval series of aes grave' in CH 9 (2002), pp. 269-270. Brownish green patina. Very fine.
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Lotto 20 Mint: possibly Volsinii. Club; Rv. central pellet. Vecchi 200; HN Italy 55; Haeberlin p. 239, 1-55, pl. 81, 42-43. This series of oval-shaped coins has traditionally been assigned to Umbria, but may belong to Etruscan Volsinii, close to the centre of attested finds if outliers are ignored; the attribution remains tentative, cf. Crawford 2002 ‘The oval series of aes grave’, in CH 9 (2002), pp. 269-270. Untouched dark patina. Good very fine.
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Lotto 21 Mint: Tuder. Frog; three pellets (mark of value) in field; Rv. Anchor; three pellets (mark of value) in l. field. Campana 13; Vecchi 225; HN Italy 48. Dark green patina. Good very fine.
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Lotto 22 Squat kantharos; above, one pellet (mark of value); Rv. Spearhead; around, TV and one pellet (mark of value). HN Italy 50; ICC 227. Dark brown patina. Extremely fine.
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Lotto 23 Northern Apulia, Luceria, c. 225-217 BC. Cast Æ Uncia (27.5mm, 22.26g, 9h). Frog. R/ Corn-ear; in field, pellet. Vecchi, ICC 342; HNItaly 674; SNG ANS -. Green patina with darker hues. Good very fine.
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Lotto 24 Head of young Hercules r., wearing lion's skin headdress; Rv. Horse prancing r.; star above. Vecchi 344; Haeberlin p. 187, 1-34 pl. 71, 9-13; HN Italy 676. Dark patina. About extremely fine.