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Agree, but you missed the limp , a result of active guard dog service

Welcome @Silbannacus you will find we are an eclectic bunch and I have found members really helpful and erudite when I ask for assistance

VICTORINUS ANTONINIANUS 269-271 AD SALUS FEEDING SNAKE RISING FROM ALTAR AND HOLDING SCEPTRE NEXT CARRY ON POST.

This pleased me as it is my second non Roman ancient coin, the first being an "Owl". I know you asked for the singular @Ryro but hope you don't mind me posting more than one because they all made a difference for me. Kings of Macedon. Uncertain mint in Asia Minor. Alexander III "the Great" 336-323 BC. Struck 323-310 BC Bronze Æ 20 mm, 5,63 g Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Club and bow in bow case, ??S???OS between; race torch below. These two also made an impact as they took me closer to my full "Fleet" collection. ANT AVG / III VIR R P C. Praetorian galley right with scepter tied on prow. CHORTIVM PRAETORIARM. Aquila between two standards. Next : Carry on this theme.

This is my only Marius Marius, 268 Antoninianus Cologne 268, billon 17.00 mm., 3.25 g. Priapus Numismatics Auction 1 November 2023.

Not quite sure how I would describe this portrait. He looks bemused... 256-260 AD. Uncertain Syrian mint. Obv: IMP C P LIC VALERIANVS AVG legend with radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: PIETAS AVGG legend with Valerian and Gallienus standing, facing each other, sacrificing over altar, one holding eagle-tipped sceptre, the other a parazonium. RIC 285; Sear 9955 (obverse variant").3.64 grams.

Here are a couple of Elizabeth 1 and other well known Queens of the United Kingdom. Shilling Three pence 1578 Then moving on to Anne Shilling 1708. Then Victoria Farthing 1862. Finally to get back onto ancient topics, Otacilia Severa AD 244-249. Rome Antoninianus AR 22mm., 3,98g.

Really beautiful coins. Here is my Albinus Brutus.

This is weird @ChrisB. My father originated from the Province of Groningen in the Netherlands and only last night I was looking at the 1998 Netherlands Mint set for Groningen , drifted into the Netherlands Mint, saw this exact coin and started looking for one. I have some Maria Theresa bullion coins and thought one of these would be an interesting companion for them. This is one of the last Guilder sets and has an interesting token with an ancient derived reverse thus: and the obverse.

Unfortunately not a different one but I believe the dot on mine that is touching the "B" confirms your theory @DonnaML GALBA (68-69), AR denier, 68-69, Rome. D / IMP SER GALBA AVG T. naked to r. R / SPQR / OB / CS in an oak wreath. BMC 314, 34; RIC 167. 2.73g Ex Jean Elsen 2019 and bought as a suspected fourree. Eventually I bought the same coin as a full weight denarius. Next continue Donna's theme as this was a Hijack !

Although significantly later, this is an easy to acquire pair that many of us may have. M. PORCIUS CATO, SILVER DENARIUS Roman Republic, M. Porcius Cato. Silver Denarius, mint of Rome, 89 BC. Obverse: Draped female bust facing right, ROMA behind, M CA[TO] below. Reverse: Victory seated right, holding patera and palm branch, VICTRIX in exergue, ST below throne. Roman Republic. M. PORCIUS CATO Quinarius. Victory Obv. female bust to right, M.CATO behind, symbol below. Rev: Victory seated right, holding patera, VICTRIX in exergue. Syd 597. 89 B.C (Crawford 343/1c; Porcia 5; Sydenham 596a). Great coins @red_sporknice to see your coins in Abafil cases I use them exclusively now and photographed this pair on the inner lid of one.

From the image, it looks as if the knuckles would be bared and vulnerable, I cannot see this being practical and wonder if this was ceremonial ?

I am sure I will enjoy my visit and I will post some photos. There are several really interesting Roman museums in the UK but on my bucket list is Lyon, this will be a really great bonus. The British Museum exhibition had an interesting write up commending it on 27th January in the Times newspaper. The surviving long shield is not what I visualised. I thought it would be much plainer. Then again I am probably psychologically influenced by Sidebottom and Fabbri who , from memory, never mentioned colour as they wouldn't have known. That is so impressive! It makes it more of a personal possession that a simple military issue like modern day fatigues. I guess if your life depended on this, you may put some care into it, and from what I can see we have homage to Victory and of course the imperial Eagle. I wonder if they were all the same or differed? A fascinating subject.

I am sure I will enjoy my visit and I will post some photos. There are several really interesting Roman museums in the UK but on my bucket list is Lyon, this will be a really great bonus. The British Museum exhibition had an interesting write up commending it on 27th January in the Times newspaper. The surviving long shield is not what I visualised. I thought it would be much plainer. Then again I am probably psychologically influenced by Sidebottom and Fabbri who , from memory, never mentioned colour as they wouldn't have known.

Many thanks @expat for bringing this to the forum attention. Appears to be very interesting and I had already booked tickets for next month. My observation, not quite a reservation, as I'm going anyway, is that the general exhibition in museums in the UK are normally free and there is a charge for this exhibition for as a "special exhibition". Fortunately the cost is of no relevance to me but charges in museums can exclude people particularly young people. The British Museum does not charge for entry only "special exhibitions". To be precise there is opportunity for children to visit free at specific times so not all bad. This is the public statement of the National Museum of Wales. "We believe that everyone has the right to access and engage with their culture and heritage free of charge. After all, the national collections belong to to the people of Wales. I have no issue with paying entry fees for private museums who clearly need support but in my opinion, national collections should be supported by taxation, maybe diverting the cost of one missile to find them?

277 AD. Lugdunum mint. Obv: IMP C PROBVS P F AVG legend with radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right. Rev: MARS VICTOR legend with Mars advancing right carrying trophy and spear; II in exergue. RIC 84; Sear 11992.3.47 grams. Ex-Timeline Auctions 2021.

Well done @DonnaML sometimes principals can be expensive but I always stick to mine. Often, invoicing is raised using proprietary software that is only as good as the input data and this looks like a genuine error on behalf of the auction house. You may well have saved another collector hundreds of dollars in the future by taking a stand.

What an interesting thread. I remember my teacher in 1966 asking how many people had TV's. I could not put my hand up and I lived in what we would typically call a "middle class" area. That soon changed and within 5 years from myself and one other in a class of 30 admitting we didn't have a TV the question was how many people had colour TV's. When I started work I had a secretary who typed my letters. For decades I have dealt with my own correspondence with my laptop and every laptop has replaced a person. I once said to a board of directors that we needed a fax machine and was laughed at with the comment that why would we need one when we bought a perfectly new Telex machine the month before? Within 18 months there was no such thing as a Telex machine in business other than in banks and the FBI. In the 1980's I had a "mobile" phone in my car , it was the size of a suitcase, a couple of years later I had a cell phone the size of a house brick and now my cell phone is tiny and I can speak and see people 15,000 miles away. I wrote an article a while ago called "Beam me up Scottie" and I opened the article explaining how my grandfather ridiculed Captain Scott and his "communicator" saying that it was impossible because we couldn't even get a decent call to a village 20 miles away! The article was about Nomophobia and since that time when my grandfather laughed at the Star Trek communicator being fantasy, the mobile phone is possibly the one item that history will record as being the most important possession of the masses and the most influential device ever, possibly apart from the printed word, that has manipulated and influenced mankind. It addicts people with Serotonin and Dopamine releases and is addictive to many. In reality, I guess the bulk of us have lived through the second industrial revolution and the ties of many of us to recent history are profound. My Father heard Hitler speak and appreciated he was a madman and narcissist and thankfully had the sense to join the Dutch Navy and that saved him. I was born in 1956 and played on bomb sites in the UK and our link to the past was not tenuous. In the 1970's I tape recorded World War One veterans and recorded extraordinary stories and that has perpetuated individual histories more so than the histories of the victor. I can truly appreciate @DonnaML's comments as our generation was born within a decade of the madness and it was as raw a memory to our parents as my explanation of my hippy dippy youth was to my children and grandchildren. I find our knowledge of the Roman and Greek civilisations extraordinary given what we know from surviving histories and numismatic study and archaeology but the invention of photography has created records of the Crimean and US Civil War that for the first time leave little to interpretation as they are literal. Unless we experience another major Carrington Event the historians of the future will be able to attempt to decipher history from the most powerful media of all - the spoken word. We all share an interest in history and that binds us and without that there would be no forum despite disparate interests in era and civilisations. I will end my ramble on something I watched recently that was a major TV hit in the UK when I was growing up. Sexist, non-PC , and weirdly unscientific. Apparently the producers had never heard of gravity and why didn't we notice the strings? Maybe our diet was so poor it affected our eyesight!

Well spotted !! What have the Roman's done for us?

As an aside, forensic examination may prove carbonisation proving, or disproving his theory. That is the first thing I would do. Scent would be long gone.

Here is the continuum from last weeks Times editorial. The first respondents suggestion is so practical and likely, insofar that fire would be revered to keep you alive, gets my vote.

This one is a recent (2023) addition. ROMAN REPUBLICAN. FAUSTUS CORNELIUS SULLA (CIRCA 56 B.C). SILVER DENARIUS. Weight: 3.65 grams. Diameter: 19mm.

Here are some connected coins. PERIODNAME REPUBLICAN TITLE Q.POMPEIUS RUFUS DENARIUS DENOMINATION DENARIUS MATERIAL SILVER RULER RUFUS REGION ROME DATE 54 BC MINT ROME CATALOG NRCV 400 RRC 434/2 CONDITION EF OBVERSE Q. Pompeius Rufus (54 BC). Silver Denarius, mint of Rome. Obverse: Curule chair flanked by arrow and laurel branch; Q#POMPEI#Q#F / RVFVS above, COS on tablet below. (Crawford 434/2; Sydenham 909). REVERSE Reverse: Curule chair flanked by lituus and wreath; SVLLA#COS above, Q#POMPEI#RVF on tablet below. L. Cornelius Sulla. Denarius mint moving with Sulla 84-83, AR 18.5mm., 3.77g. Diademed head of Venus r.; in Sydenham 761a. Crawford 359/2. r.; in r. field, Cupid standing l., holding palm branch; below, L·SVLLA. Rev. IMPER Jug and lituus between two trophies; below, ITERV. Babelon Cornelia 30.

Thank you @DonnaML. My fingers work faster than my brain sometimes!

PESCENNIUS NIGER. 193-194 AD. AR Denarius (2.82 gm). Caesarea in Cappadocia mint. SALUS STG R, FEEDING SNAKE HELD IN HER ARMS. ALTAR AT FEET. RCV 2 6124 RSC 68 Next Salus seated.