Need Help With Roman Republic As - Janus And Prow

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FrostyMoon New Member United States 13 Posts	Posted 03/24/2020 9:26 pm Hello everyone, I need some help identifying this worn Roman Republic As: bronze 30mm 19.83g obverse: Janus, laureate, with "I" above reverse: prow right, "ROMA" below, "I" in right field, the above field is well worn and appears to be empty except for the structure on the prow My best guess is that this coin resembles RRC 197-8B/1b... Can anyone confirm or deny this? Report this Post to the Staff

echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 03/25/2020 12:40 am to the community Going through Crawford it might possibly be Crawford 189/1. Sydenham 370. Wish there was more detail, but because of the wear it's difficult to confirm. Report this Post to the Staff
DavidUK Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2624 Posts	Posted 03/25/2020 07:46 am Wasn't this the type of coin that led to them calling "ships or heads" rather than "heads or tails?" Report this Post to the Staff
jbuck Moderator United States 197031 Posts	Posted 03/25/2020 4:37 pm to the Community! Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
FrostyMoon New Member United States 13 Posts	Posted 03/25/2020 7:03 pm Thanks for your reply echizento. I did a lot of staring at the coin today. It does look like there are traces of the "A" and the "S" from "P.BLAS" in the upper field. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 17016 Posts	Posted 03/25/2020 8:06 pm Quote: Wasn't this the type of coin that led to them calling "ships or heads" rather than "heads or tails?" Correct. The Romans may not have been the first to invent the concept of tossing a coin to make a decision and/or determine the will of the gods, but the coins the Romans used to do the tossing - large bronze asses like this one - had this design for so long, "caput aut navis" (heads or ships) became the Latin call-out on a coin toss, even long after the heads-and-ships design was abandoned. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 03/25/2020 9:52 pm Do you have a copy of Crawford? If not here is a link to it. http://davy.potdevin.free.fr/Site/crawford1.html There is also a complete version that you can download: https://epdf.pub/roman-republican-c...olume-i.html https://epdf.pub/roman-republican-c...lume-ii.html Report this Post to the Staff
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