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New ID guide for Early Anonymous Roman Denarii
« on: March 07, 2014, 04:38:08 pm »
I am working on a new ID guide for Early Anonymous Roman Denarii.

I remember there is an article in the Celator that covers distinguishing between two types.  Anyone know the month / year?

Here is the NumisWiki page so far:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Early%20Anonymous%20Denarii

I actually hope the end result looks quite a bit different than the current page.  What is there now is essentially my notes after day one.  So far, none of the references I have examined (Crawford, Sydenham, SRCV I, and RSC I) appear to be adequate in identifying the dates, mints or issues.  Perhaps these things are still unknown and perhaps they will remain that way. 

I am looking for comments, suggestions, corrections, references I should read, etc. 
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Re: New ID guide for Early Anonymous Roman Denarii
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2014, 04:56:14 pm »
Nice gide thanks :)

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Re: New ID guide for Early Anonymous Roman Denarii
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2014, 05:33:41 pm »
I am working on a new ID guide for Early Anonymous Roman Denarii.

I remember there is an article in the Celator that covers distinguishing between two types.  Anyone know the month / year?

Here is the NumisWiki page so far:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Early%20Anonymous%20Denarii

I actually hope the end result looks quite a bit different than the current page.  What is there now is essentially my notes after day one.  So far, none of the references I have examined (Crawford, Sydenham, SRCV I, and RSC I) appear to be adequate in identifying the dates, mints or issues.  Perhaps these things are still unknown and perhaps they will remain that way. 

I am looking for comments, suggestions, corrections, references I should read, etc. 

Joe

I can certainly help with a major references: The Celator guide is actually online, and has been for some years; the related article on the Victoriatus will also shortly be online, accompanying the denarius: in fact this website was among those nominated for the annual award poll last year.

http://stevebrinkman.ancients.info/anonymous/

As for dates, mints and issues, that's still being worked between Steve Brinkman and Pierluigi Debernardi: much more is now known that is not yet published, as for example die links are beginning to give good information as to which anonymous types were struck in Sicily, South Italy, Rome or Etruria. In a way it complements what I've been working on with the bronzes, and Steve and Pierluigi are in close contact with me for  when there are anonymous issues that evidently contain both silver and bronze.

Joe's new page has a lot of new information, some of which is missing from the Brinkman page such as Sear numbers, Sydenham helmet style illustration, but given how much is on the Brinkman/Debernardi page, it may be best instead of a complete new web-page to instead create something that complements that Brinkman page e.g. that references Sear, RSC and other commonly used references and indicates where they may be found on the Brinkman page, or that somehow summarises the Brinkman page, with links back (which the authors would no doubt appreciate as their work is under-referenced so far!)

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Re: New ID guide for Early Anonymous Roman Denarii
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2014, 09:14:53 pm »
I forgot about Steve Binkman's site. I might not have started the page if I had remembered it.
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