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I just got the book mentioned by @David Atherton I actually ordered it before this thread got started. Going to start reading it soon. So far this year 1 coin and 32 or is it 33 books????? 😁

My coin is very similar to that posted by @Roman Collector However on mine Faustina is not veiled. It also appears to be tenth anniverary issue. It is also my latest and only coin picked up so far this year. (However I did buy 32 books and counting) Faustina I Senior Ae Sestertius 146=161 AD Obv busted right draped. Rv Facade of Hexastyle temple of Diva Faustina with cult statue seated within the two innermost columns RIC 1115a Banti 27 This coin illustrated 25.62 grms 30.5 mm Photo by W. Hansen This has to be one of the most complex depictions of the temple seen on a Roman coin. I am really impressed by that papa; medal posted above by @Ancient Aussie

Lesbos Billon Stater 500-450 BC Obv Teo calf head confronted. Rv rough incuse square anepigraphic HGC 1076 11.29 grms 18 mm Photo by W. HansenThis unusual billon coinage appears to be unique to the island. The reasons for it are unknown.

Link Athena Side Ar Tetradrachm 200-175 BC Obv Head of Athena right wearing Corinthian style helmet. Rv Nike advancing left holding wreath in outstretched right hand. Pomegranate in left field 16.78 grms 31 mm Photo by W. Hansen

Severina Bil Aurelianus Antioch 275 AD Obv Bust right diademed and draped set on crescent. RV Concordia standing left holding military standard in each hand. RIC 29 MIR 382a2 This coin illustrated. Weber & King NC 1984 Plate 35 5 This coin illustrated Brenot &Pflaum RN 1965 Tome 7 Plate VIIII 2 b This coin illustrated. 3.37 grms 23 mm Photo by W. HansenThis rather fresh looking coin is pedigreed to three books the earliest reference I could find is back in 1968 I was lucky with this one. I knew the MIR reference when I bought it. However when checking that out I found the NC and then the RN reference.

Quite a few years ago I bought this coin Elagabalus Ae 8 Assaria 218-222 AD Antioch Obv Head right laureate Rv Tyche seated left river god swimming before. McAlee 802 32mm 18.5 grms THIS IS NO LONGER MY COIN I bought this coin on line from David Hendin. Unfortunately he sent me the wrong coin and mine was heading to Germany. I contacted him and he apologized. I sent the coin I received back to him and he eventually sent my coin to me. This can happen to the best of us. One time I was sending a group of coins for auction and realized that i had forgotten to place in the package a Ae Drachm of Ptolemy III Wow How could I have messed that one up.

"The Metrology of the Roman Silver Coinage" in three volumes by DR Walker covers the entire Roman provincial silver coinage (as well as the Imperial from Augustus through to Uranius Antoninus There is a caveat. This book uses the XRF analysis which can be slightly off if not used with care. However for the bulk of the Roman silver coinage it remains the only source. I have a spare vol I and III

Trajan Ae Sestertius 111 AD Obv Head right laureate Rv Arabia standing left holding branch in right hand and cradling bundle bundle of cinnamon sticks in her left To left camel advancing left RIC 466 Woytek 363a 24.14 grms 32 mm Photo by W. Hansen In response to @DonnaML I believe the object can be seen on this sestertius somewhat more clearly than on the much smaller denarius. It appears to be a bundle made up of straight sticks held in a bundle by two straps. The bottom of the bundle is somewhat rounded and is generally staight untill it tapers to a point. To me it does look like cinnamon sticks as are illustrated in Wikipedia. At this time cinnamon appears to come from India and the erst while Nabatean Kingdom controlled much of that trade until their kingdom was annexed by the Romans. However I will make one caveat. I only did a very superficial dive into the subject. I have to wonder if the branch held by Arabia is from the Balsam plant. At the time Balsam was known to be grown in Jericho ( Israel), Egypt (brought there by Cleopatra VII) and Arabia Felix (Yemen) Hope this helps.

Marcus Aurelius Ae Sestertius 170-171 AD Obv Head right laureate Rv Inscription within wreath RIC 106 30.57 grms 33 mm Photo by W. Hansen

Denarius of Julius Caesar 44 BC Aemilius Buca moneyer Obv Head right laureate. Rv. Venus standing left holding victory in outstretched right hand and scepter in left. Crawford 480/4 4.34 grms 17 mm Photo by W. Hansen This coin was probably struck during the period of January- February 44 BC Those of you who followed one of the threads concerning pedigrees (provenance) would have noticed that this coin was one of those I discovered a hidden pedigree. Actually twice. Though it did not move the earliest date know by me for this coin very much.

In response to @Heliodromus No at the time that I was doing business with the site, it was run by John Lavender.

Not all of the vague pedigrees a spurious. At one time I was consigning a lot of coins to the V Auctions site "Triskeles" and the auctioneer decided to give me the name "Maple Leaf Collection" All the Maple Leaf coins were mine. I suspect the reason why he decided to place this moniker on my coins was that if somebody liked one of my coins he may be encouraged to look at some of the others with more interest. This is one of the coins from one of those auctions Constantius I Ae Follis Lugdunum Obv Bust left laureate draped and cuirassed Rv Genio standing left Triskeles Sale 322 Lot 405 December 13 2015 THIS IS NO LONGER MY COIN. The auctioneer did NOT use the Maple Leaf moniker for all my coins

In answer to @John ConduittYes I did In some places more than once, I also looked through old Celator's as well (actually found three there).

You could also check out the Neuman Numismatic Portal nnp.wustl.edu Like the rnumis site it does have a large number of auction cats and some FPLs some of which are not found on rnumis. However it can be something of a slog. Last year at about this time, for my edification I decide to create a chart showing in an abbreviated form my success in finding "hidden pedigrees" Below are the results. As this chart was meant for my purposes it can be a bit confusing. From left to right you can see the coin cited , then the earliest date that I knew when purchasing it. The new date. (The red means that I found the coin plated or referenced in a book.) After that there are subsequent citations including + and # as I have found the same coin multiple times. To the right are the sources where found. Some are a bit odd. The Numerian was found to be the cover coin for the Wikipedia article on Numerian

In another thread @David Atherton features a very interesting Denarius which is now plated in the 2007 edition of the RIC. I too have a plate coin from that volume. I felt that it might not be correct to place it in that thread. (Not being Vespasian ) so I decided to place it here. In a way it does belong here as it is perhaps my very first adventure with a pedigree. Domitiann As Caesar Ae Sestertius 77-78 AD Obv Head right laureate Rv Annona seated left RIC 1040 26.41 grms 33 MM Photo by W. Hansen During the Christmas holiday 2014 I went to visit my sister in Calgary and while there I stopped at Calgary Coin and bought this sestertius. I thought it was nice and the price was right so I took it with me. A few days later back at home, I decide to start researching the coin. Everything was more or less as expected until I decided to compare my coin with the example plated in the RIC and discovered it was one and the same. Here you can see my rather inept attempt at taking a photo of the relevant plate of the RIC with my coin sitting beside it. Naturally this piqued my interest and so looking at the information that came with the coin it was my first foray down the rabbit hole of Pedigree research Initially I found it had a ticket from Ed Waddell. This was undated However the RIC number given was from the older edition of RIC not the one published in 2007 Then I found it had a reference to the Cornelius Vermeule Collection. His collection was auctioned off in 1999 by CNG however going through that auction I could not find it. This turned out to be a dead end. Then I found a reference the the V.J.E Ryan collection This coin was auctioned as part of a three coin bult lot in a Glendinnings Auction in 1952. It is not illustrated there However the RIC reference list the Ryan pedigree as well as the lot number. A cast must have been made of the coin at some point and was used to illustrate the 2007 edition of the RIC. The Vermeule reference may actually be one of the other coins found in this bulk lot.

Spanish Empire in the New World 8 Reals Mexico Mint Philip V 1742 Ever since I started to collect coins over 60 years ago I have always wanted one of these, Some years ago I managed to get one.

Ptolemy IV Ae Drachm 218?-204 BC Obv Head of Zeus Ammon right Rv Eagle standing left wings folded CPE B 508 66.80 grms 40 mm Photo by W. HansenLove those Ptolemaic hockey pucks

Ernst Justus Haeberlin 1847-1925 Author of a number of Numismatic works and principally interested in the cast bronze coinage of the Roman Republic His collection was sold in an auction held by A Cahn & A Hess Auction 83 held on July 17 1933 . My coin is Lot 33 Roman Republic Ar Didrachm 241-235 BC Obv Helmeted head of beardless Mars right. Rv Head of bridled horse right behind sickle Crawford 25/1 RBW 38 6.49 grms 19 mm This is an image of the coin as seen in the auction And the man himself

Antiochos IV Epiphanes Ar Tetradrachm Antioch 168-164 BC Obv Head right diademed Rv Zeus Nikephoros seated left holding Nike in outstretched right hand and scepter in left SC 1400 HGC 620a 16.86 grms 32 mm Photo by W. Hansen Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection. The only time I ever impressed my mother with my collecting was when she saw an engraved invitation from Sotheby's inviting me to attend this auction.

Philip III Av Stater Lampsakos 323-317 BC Obv Helmeted head of Athena right, Rv Nike standing left Price P 13 8.59 grms 18 mm Photo by W Hansen Philip's coins are completely overshadowed by the coinage of Alexander. However his coinage is very uusefull in the study of that coinage as it does give some evidence for which coins are lifetime and which are posthumous.

The so called Leontini "wet head" Tetradrachms were a part of a hoard but not the Randazzo hoard as commented on by @DeinomenidThis was a separate hoard possibly found in the 1980's and appears to have be purchased in large part or in whole by Numismatic Fine Arts out of Beverly Hills California. A few of these coins were put on auction during the late 80's by NFA, however the bulk were kept in what became to be known as the Athena Fund, a venture run by NFA in partnership with Merrill Lynch. Eventually with the collapse of NFA the Athena fund was auctioned off in three Auctions in late 1993. One of these auctions Auction II October 26 1993 had along with a number of these coins offered as individual lots, at least one bulk lot with at least a dozen or more of these coins. I have been told that my coin is one of the coins from this bulk lot. I believe this as I purchased this coin very soon afterwards. Leontini Ar Tetradrachm circa 440-430 BC Obv Head of Apollo left/ Rv Head of roaring lion left surrounded by three kernels of grain and one leaf HGC 671 17.34 grms 25 mm Photo by W. Hansen One of the features of the coins struck with this obverse die is the evidence of die deterioration. This die started to fall apart very quickly. It is interesting that even on @John060167coin shown above that the large die break (which I usually call "the shield") is evident on his coin as well. What is not evident on his coin though on mine is the diebreak behind the eye.

I am very glad it worked out for you @seth77 but like I said before try not to make it into a habit. I too have a number a favorite auctions and overall I have been treated well and like you I would be loath to lose them.

Many years ago I owned this coin Galerius Ae Follis Alexandria 308-310 AD Obv Head right laureate Rv Genio standing left. 23 mm aprox 6 grms. I It was a very nice coin and I was happy with it. However when I retired from the Post Office i did a cross country trip from Edmonton AB to New York City. I hit a number of dealers along the way and ended up with this coin. Basically the same coin. The pictures are a little disingenuous as the coins were roughly the same size. This was very annoying as before I embarked on my drive I had researched all the coins that I would see on the trip beforehand and I still bought this coin. The only thing that saved me was that RIC noted the position of the wreath ties as a variety. Still vexing. YES NIETHER OF THESE ARE MY COIN ANYMORE.

I would say the same thing. Contact them right away and explain the situation. I am certain they have dealt with this situation before and perhaps could contact the underbidder. and offer them the coin. I would make a point of not having this problem again in the future. I have never had this happen to me. There have been a couple of times my computer froze, but that meant I was unable to bid. Curses foiled again. Good luck

I am hardly an expert on this series but I will have a go. Back in 1970 Chester Starr took over from where Seltman left off and published his Athenian Coinage 480-449 BC. In this book he catalogued the Athenian coinage from the end of the Persian wars to the start of the "Mass coinage" which we now date as commencing in 454 BC. Though the absolute chronology that he had established for this coinage has been successfully challenged, his organization into five main groups with a number of sub groups has generally not. Starr places the Athenian Dekadrachms in his Group II C Group II has been sub dived into three sub groups A through C. Fischer- Bossert has also studied the Athenian Dekadrachms and appears to be responsible for the dating of that coinage . The Roma coin in question has been identified as being part of Group II A. I cannot comment on the veracity of that claim. Sorting through the Starr Groups I through III is not for the faint hearted. However the length of this coinage is very small. Hoover in his HGC series placed the Starr Group I coins starting in 475 BC and we now accept that this coinage ended with Group V at 454 BC. giving us a period of 20 years. Starr's book very similar to mine. This is the Durst reprint. Athens Ar Dekadrachm 469/5-460 BC Obv Helmeted head of Athena right Rv Owl standing facing wings spread. Fischer-Bossert 18 This coin illustrated Starr Group II C HGC 1585 43.38 grms 31.5 mm Photo CNG Triton XXII Lot 211 January 7 2019 THIS IS NOT MY COIN