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Very Rare Coin? With Ship And 2 Heads Roman

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 Posted 09/21/2014  06:14 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add vince1977 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello All,

Ive got this coin in my collection. Which is probably from the same time as the other romans I previous posted. So I did some research. And it has alot of similarities to this coin. I post aswell an screenshot from MCSEARCH.info

It looks like this one description below. But then it is highly rare. Is this possible?

The quality is bad but it looks like the only similarity with 2 heads and an ship on the reverse. If I'm correctly. I hope someone can tell me more about this one.

Here below the description I found. I post aswell a few pictures of mine and the pictures of the coin ment here below to compare. Hope to hear from you!
I post 4 pictures of my coin. 2 from an distance and 2 from close by. For better comparing. And the one from the information below.

The Roman Republic
Struck Coinage
CN COR and dolabella series
As, Spain circa 120-115, Æ 47.70 g. Laureate head of Janus; above, mark of value. Rev. CN·COR Prow r.;
before, dolabella and below, ROMA. Sydenham â€". T.V. Buttrey, NC 1964, pp. 125-128. Crawford 81/1.
R. Russo, Essays Hersh, pl. 18, A (this coin). Exceedingly rare, only very few specimens known. Desert patina and in exceptional condition for the issue, and extremely fine The series with the dolabella, together with the as of Cn. Cor., were previously dated to 211-208 and attributed to Sicily. They are, in fact, struck in Spain between 130-128 and, together with the Sex. Iuli as, which is contemporary and also struck in Spain, represent the restart of the coinage of the as after a break in the issuing of this denomination after 145. The Sex. Ivli and Cn. Cor/Dolabella series were, up until the last twenty years, known in only a very few specimens, and thought to be unofficial issues. A number of new specimens have come on the market, primarily from Spain, and it now seems that these series are at least semi-official. Roberto gives his views on the dating above; I have always found them to be interesting coins, and am pleased to be able to offer a nearly complete group. (RBW





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 Posted 09/21/2014  06:16 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add vince1977 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Forgot to mention the diameter and the weight.
7,05 is the weight and almost 23 mm.
You can see ROMA Below the ship aswell.
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Not my strongest area but I think you have a 'semis' with the bust of Saturn on the obverse. Reverse looks to Be ships prow with S (mark of value) above and ROMA below.
Almost certainly not the Janus double facing bust and the flan is odd shaped. Probably an early type. The coin is a bit rough and I can't imagine it extremely valuable ..... but I could be wrong !
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Thx for your reaction. You mean something like this coin below then I think?

There are alot of varities of this coin I see now.

This information is with the picture below:
CN COR and dolabella series
Semis, Spain circa 130-128, Æ 10.52 g. Laureate head of Saturn r.; behind, S. Rev. Prow r.; above, S,
before dolabella and below ROMA. Sydenham â€". Crawford â€". R. Russo, Essays Hersh, pl. 18, 39.



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 Posted 09/21/2014  08:12 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add FVRIVS RVFVS to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yes something like that. Yours I believe is a bit too far gone to pin down with certainty but that is the right direction.
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Thank you! it is now in the distilled water. So it might getting better. But it can take some months :) Afterwards I will post better pictures. Maybe whe can make an certeinty determination..

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