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Denomination: Denarius
Metal: AR
Obverse: Head of Roma with Peaked visor, X mark of value behind
Reverse: Dioscuri riding r., streaming cape., ROMA in raised letters in trapezoidal frame.
Weight: 4.41gm
Reference: Crawford 53/2
Provenance: ROMA Coins, June 1, 2016, Ex. InAsta 21, lot 150.
53(A). Very Rare. Early Trapezoidal frame group. Style is not in Crawford plates. Head of Roma with four locks of hair at the back of the neck (All varieties have 3 locks, consistently except for this and the very rare group 7 cornucopia sibling. Both of which have 4 locks). The hair binding is clearly visible above the four locks of hair, and this is unique to this variety in the 53/2 series. On the reverse, the horse's hind legs are bent at the hock, so that the hind hooves are ahead of the hock. This hind leg characteristic is like group 3, but without the hatched tail unique to the group 3 variety.
Classified as group A in "A New Arrangement for RRC 53/2" Pierluigi Debernardi and Steve Brinkman. Revue Numismatique 2018, pp. 193-239.
Collection : Fully Anonymous Early Roman Silver of the denarius system