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Home / Height of the Second Punic War and the Earliest Denarii, circa 218 B.C.-206 B.C. /

Cr. 55/- anonymous quinarius, after 211 B.C., uncertain(Lucanian?) mint

55.2.png Cr. 53/2 Group D2/Group 6, 206 B.C., Apulian or Campanian mintThumbnailsCr. 56/2 McCabe G2 Anonymous As, after 212 BCCr. 53/2 Group D2/Group 6, 206 B.C., Apulian or Campanian mintThumbnailsCr. 56/2 McCabe G2 Anonymous As, after 212 BCCr. 53/2 Group D2/Group 6, 206 B.C., Apulian or Campanian mintThumbnailsCr. 56/2 McCabe G2 Anonymous As, after 212 BCCr. 53/2 Group D2/Group 6, 206 B.C., Apulian or Campanian mintThumbnailsCr. 56/2 McCabe G2 Anonymous As, after 212 BCCr. 53/2 Group D2/Group 6, 206 B.C., Apulian or Campanian mintThumbnailsCr. 56/2 McCabe G2 Anonymous As, after 212 BCCr. 53/2 Group D2/Group 6, 206 B.C., Apulian or Campanian mintThumbnailsCr. 56/2 McCabe G2 Anonymous As, after 212 BCCr. 53/2 Group D2/Group 6, 206 B.C., Apulian or Campanian mintThumbnailsCr. 56/2 McCabe G2 Anonymous As, after 212 BC

Roman Republic AR Quinarius(2.12 g). Anonymous. After 211 B.C. Uncertain Lucanian mint, perhaps Venusia. Head of Roma right, wearing winged helmet ornamented with griffin's head and three-piece visor, earring and necklace; behind, V. Border of dots / Dioscuri on horseback riding right, each holding couched spear and wearing chlamys, cuirass and pileus surmounted by star; in relief in linear frame, ROMA. Line border. Crawford -, but cf 55/1; RRSC Bq46A(these dies)

Ex NOA Auction 4, 29 April 2026, 126, ex Alberto Banti collection, Peus 322, 1 November 1988, 45

One of four known examples(others: 2 from the Licata hoard, 1 sold privately by Lucernae a few years ago) of this rare variety which is the quinarius of Crawford 55, not listed by Crawford. 55/1 is a fascinating and rare type in which visors transform from splayed to peaked within a single type.

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