red_spork Posted February 29 · Member Share Posted February 29 I'm excited to share a couple of interesting coins I recently picked up and unlike most of my posts I'm going to post the pictures right here at the start: Confused? Think you're seeing double? This pair of coins are two different denominations from the same Crawford 26 series, a didrachm and drachm, respectively. A few of the predenarius didrachm issues have fractional pieces like this drachm but they are all considerably rarer than their didrachm siblings for reasons that aren't completely obvious. The types here seemingly have no extremely special meaning and seem to be recreating the second Roman didrachm, Crawford 15/1, which itself seems to have types inspired by the coinage of Arpi. Full IDs and a picture of both coins side by side so you can see the relative sizes: Roman Republic AR Didrachm(19mm, 6.64g, 3h), anonymous, circa 235 BC, Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right / Horse rearing left; above ROMA. Crawford 26/1; Sydenham 27; BMCRR Romano-Campanian 68; HN Italy 306 and Roman Republic AR Drachm(15mm, 3.19g, 8h), anonymous, circa 235 BC, Rome mint. Laureate head of Apollo right / Horse rearing left; above ROMA. Crawford 26/2; Sydenham 28; HN Italy 307; BMCRR Romano-Campanian 69b Privately purchased from a friend in February 2024, privately purchased by him from Andrew McCabe in 2022, ex Roma Numismatics Auction 9, 22 March 2015, lot 492 22 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPK Posted February 29 · Supporter Share Posted February 29 Wow, beautiful coins @red_spork! I love the reverse on that didrachm. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dafydd Posted March 2 · Supporter Share Posted March 2 Although significantly later, this is an easy to acquire pair that many of us may have. M. PORCIUS CATO, SILVER DENARIUS Roman Republic, M. Porcius Cato. Silver Denarius, mint of Rome, 89 BC. Obverse: Draped female bust facing right, ROMA behind, M CA[TO] below. Reverse: Victory seated right, holding patera and palm branch, VICTRIX in exergue, ST below throne. Roman Republic. M. PORCIUS CATO Quinarius. Victory Obv. female bust to right, M.CATO behind, symbol below. Rev: Victory seated right, holding patera, VICTRIX in exergue. Syd 597. 89 B.C (Crawford 343/1c; Porcia 5; Sydenham 596a). Great coins @red_sporknice to see your coins in Abafil cases I use them exclusively now and photographed this pair on the inner lid of one. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qcumbor Posted March 3 · Supporter Share Posted March 3 Both are beautiful. Now I want them 😀 Q 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_spork Posted March 3 · Member Author Share Posted March 3 15 hours ago, Dafydd said: Although significantly later, this is an easy to acquire pair that many of us may have. And this is still one I somehow don't have either of the coins of. Nice coins! 15 hours ago, Dafydd said: Great coins @red_sporknice to see your coins in Abafil cases I use them exclusively now and photographed this pair on the inner lid of one. Yes I've been a huge fan of them for a few years now. They are really the best way I've found to store coins. I only store aes rude and aes grave separately since they don't fit my trays very well and I haven't really found a great way to store them. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted April 20 · Supporter Share Posted April 20 (edited) Oh, wow, @red_spork! Lovem! Very nice gorgeous examples! I am fascinated by the Pre-Denarius AR coinage, and captured a few Drachmae (and DiDrachmae)... I have a few others... Roman Republic AR Half-Quadrigatus (216-214 BCE) DRACHM 17.7mm, 3.2g OBV: Beardless Janiform (thought to represent the Dioscuri being beardless) REV: Iupiter and Victory in galloping quadriga LEFT (to distinguish it from Quadrigatus Didrachm), ROMA in ex REF: Sear 35 RR Anon AR Heavy Quin Drachm Half Quadrigatus 225-212 BCE 3.1g 18mm Janus Jupiter in Quadriga L Victory ROMA Cr 29-4 S 35 S RR Anon Ca 240 BCE AR Drachm 16mm 3.0g Rome Helmet Hd Mars r - Horse’s hd sickle Wildwinds Cr 25-2 Syd 25 RSC 34a RR Anon AR Heavy Denarius -Quadrigatus - Didrachm 225-215 BCE Incuse Roma Janus Jupiter Cr 28-3 S 31 Edited April 20 by Alegandron 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegandron Posted April 20 · Supporter Share Posted April 20 (edited) I do have the OTHER Apollo / Galloping Horse version of the DiDrachm: RR Anon AR Heavy Denarius - Didrachm 275-270 BCE ROMANO Apollo Left-Galloping Horse Sear23 Edited April 20 by Alegandron 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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