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             Item Sold At Auction #40
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  Lot Number: 64638
  Estimate: $200.00
  Final Sale Price: $154.00
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  Denomination: Quadrans
  Grade: VF dark brown patina
  Reference: RIC II 708; BMCRE pg. 234, ||; Simic and Vasic 13; Cohen
  182

  Trajan. 98-117 AD. Æ Quadrans (2.71 gm). Dalmatia mines. IMP CAES TRAIAN AVG GER
  [DAC], laureate head right / METALLI VLPIANI, Aequitas standing left, holding scales
  and cornucopiae. RIC II 708; BMCRE pg. 234, ||; Simic and Vasic, "La Monnaie des
  Mines Romaines de L'Illyrie," in Revue Numismatique 1977, 13; Cohen 182. VF, dark
  brown patina. Very Rare. Estimate $200.



  Under Trajan and Hadrian several series of bronze quadrantes were struck in the name
  of the imperial mines in Noricum, Dalmatia, Pannonia and Moesia (Dardania). These
  operations supplied metal for the mint at Rome, and perhaps were the sites of
  workshops to produce coinage for local circulation or as donatives. Others theorize
  that these pieces were struck at Rome itself, and served some unidentified function,
  much as the contemporary "nome" coinage struck at Alexandria in Egypt. Whatever the
  circumstances, these pieces saw limited use, and, except for one rare type struck by
  Marcus Aurelius, were not issued at any other period.


Online auction number 40 closed October 22, 2001.



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