Thanks
Curtis,
Initially I did perform a visual
search for this item within these pages, but then
dismissed them as all being different. The wear and
toning, and perhaps even
the lighting of my image, all conspired to lead me away from the piece you point
out as being the same - which, upon closer inspection, it clearly is. It is so very
obvious when you point it out. Thank you.
Have you found any additional specimens since your above post, and would it be
improper to consider this the second (third, +??) known specimen? Oh, and thanks
for pointing out the correct
identification of the
reverse figure.
When I saw the
Lanz description my hopes were raised that some new information
(article, etc.)
had been released of which I was unaware. I think there is some
agreement that there are some similarities between many of these
denarii and the
cistophori of
Asia Minor. This may lead toward the suggestion, perhaps even a loose
conclusion, that they could have been (were?) struck at the same
mint or mints. But
the question remains as to which
mint or mints, or even if they were struck at same
time at those same
mint(s), and not just somewhere nearby in both time and place.
I love this stuff. Wish I
had more to go on.
Thanks for your
help Curtis.
Walter
Holt