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L. Mussidius Longus AR Denarius. Rome, 42 BC. Radiate and draped bust of Sol facing slightly right / The shrine of Venus Cloacina; a low circular platform surmounted by two statues of the goddess, each resting right hand on cippus, the platform inscribed CLOACIN and ornamented with trellis-pattern balustrade, with flight of steps and portico on left; L•MVSSIDIVS•LONGVS above. Crawford 494/43a; RSC Mussidia 7. 3.78g, 17mm, 5h.
Good Very Fine. Flan imperfection on face of Sol, slight flat strike to rev. Struck centrally on the flan, old collection tone.
From the Andrew McCabe Collection;
Ex Randy Haviland Collection, Gemini X, 13 January 2013, lot 327;
Ex De Nicola FPL 3, September 1968, lot 300;
Banti Mvssidia 13/11 (this coin).
The imperfection across the face of Sol is as-struck and reflects an underlying weight adjustment flan gouge, a practice termed al-marco. This is a relatively late example of the al-marco weight adjustment system, which requires that a batch of coin blanks be deliberately made from a slight excess of silver, and the weight of the batch then be adjusted down by selecting blanks at random – not by weighing them – from the batch, and gouging a small piece from the selected blanks until the batch weight is correct. Although not intuitively obvious, this technique causes a reduced weight variation between coins, and requires much less work than individually adjusting the weight of each flan (al-peso). Clive Stannard has published extensively on this technique, see http://stannard.info/
Good Very Fine. Flan imperfection on face of Sol, slight flat strike to rev. Struck centrally on the flan, old collection tone.
From the Andrew McCabe Collection;
Ex Randy Haviland Collection, Gemini X, 13 January 2013, lot 327;
Ex De Nicola FPL 3, September 1968, lot 300;
Banti Mvssidia 13/11 (this coin).
The imperfection across the face of Sol is as-struck and reflects an underlying weight adjustment flan gouge, a practice termed al-marco. This is a relatively late example of the al-marco weight adjustment system, which requires that a batch of coin blanks be deliberately made from a slight excess of silver, and the weight of the batch then be adjusted down by selecting blanks at random – not by weighing them – from the batch, and gouging a small piece from the selected blanks until the batch weight is correct. Although not intuitively obvious, this technique causes a reduced weight variation between coins, and requires much less work than individually adjusting the weight of each flan (al-peso). Clive Stannard has published extensively on this technique, see http://stannard.info/