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Here's a little guy riding a dolphin, as one does. Moneyer: L. Lucretius Trio Coin: Silver Denarius II - Laureate head of Neptune right with trident over shoulder L.LVCRETI / TRIO - Winged boy on dolphin speeding right Mint: Rome (76 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.92g / 19mm / 8h References: RSC 3 (Lucretia) Sydenham 784 Crawford 390/2 Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online Auction NN Live 57 #431 26-Apr-2020 Next - another Roman Republican Denarius.

For technical articles/theses I always used LaTeX - a somewhat user-friendly front end for TeX. https://www.latex-project.org/ It's free and perfect for any kind of technical book - I'm not sure it's exactly what you need, but it's what I'd use, even to write up my collection of Roman Republican coins. As mentioned, LaTeX is based on TeX, which was was written by legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth in the 1970s/early 80s to typeset "The Art Of Computer Programming", which has been a work-in-progress since the early 1960s. These are the volumes I have, which I should get around to tackling someday. Apparently, there's a volume 4B now which includes Fascicle 5 below and Fascicle 6. Other volumes are planned - 4C, 5, 6, 7 - the RIC of the software world in at least the gargantuan task aspect. You will find GUIs for LaTeX and online tools which compile LaTeX (https://www.latex-project.org/get/ - online) - I prefer the command line and vi for editing, so haven't used the GUIs. ATB, Aidan.

I agree with all above - the first photos are out of focus more than anything. f/16 and f/18 are fine for getting a wide depth of field but are likely to likely to result in the image being soft due to diffraction. Focus stacking, maybe available in the camera or else in post processing may be a better bet for getting a sharp deep depth of field. (That said, I rarely bother with it!). I took a series of photos from f/2.8 to f/22 of the same coin last year and could see the image get sharper as more was in focus and then more blurred as the aperture changed. If you're using a tripod or copystand for holding the camera, it may be better to switch off image stabilisation, certainly if you can trigger the camera remotely and have an electronic shutter which eliminates any shuddering due to the shutter firing. ATB, Aidan.

Here's a recent arrival from Noonan's. Moneyer: C. Naevius Balbus Coin: Silver Denarius S·C / S - Head of Venus, right, wearing diadem; before, control-mark - Victory in triga, right, holding reins in both hands - C·NA͡E·BA͡LB Mint: Rome (79 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.95g / - / - References: RSC 6b (Naevia) Sydenham 769 Crawford 382/1a Provenances: Ex. Steve Clarke Collection Acquisition: Noonan's Online auction #284 (part of) 8-Mar-2023 Cr. 382/1b has a control number on the reverse - it seems to me that /1a with a control letter on the obverse is less common. It came in a lot with this - a denarius of Tiberius Claudius Nero, grandfather of the emperor Tiberius. Moneyer: Ti. Claudius Nero Coin: Silver Denarius S·C - Bust of Diana, right, draped, with bow and quiver over shoulder - Victory in biga, right, holding palm-branch and reins in left hand and wreath in right hand - TI·CLAV͡D·TI·F / A͡P·N Mint: Rome (79 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.73g / - / - References: RSC 6 (Claudia) Sydenham 770 Crawford 383/1 Provenances: Ex. Steve Clarke Collection Acquisition: Noonan's Online auction #284 (part of) 8-Mar-2023 ATB, Aidan.

OK - a random selection taken over the past few years... ATB, Aidan.

Here's a Brutus from an auction last Autumn. Ruler: Brutus Gens: Junia Moneyer: P Corn. Spinther Coin: Silver Denarius BRVTVS - Axe, culullus and knife LENTVLVS SPINT - Jug and lituus Mint: Smyrna? (43-42 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.81g / - / - References: RSC 41 (Junia) Sydenham 1310 Crawford 500/7 BMCRR East 80 HCRI 198 Acquisition: Kuenker Online auction 377 #5624 20-Oct-2022 Next - lituus

Here's a very worn Port Of Ostia sestertius which is certainly flawed but I like it. Ruler: Nero (Augustus) Coin: Orichalcum Sestertius IMP NERO CAESAR AVG P MAX TRIB POT P P - Laureate head left S C, PORT AVG - View of the port of Ostia Mint: Rome (ca 66 AD) Wt./Size/Axis: 21.87g / 33.5mm / 6h References: RIC 513 Acquisition: CGB Online shop 20-Sep-2013 Next - another sestertius

Here's a recent arrival from a Noonan's sale. L. Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus and Q. Servilius Caepio, Denarius, c. 100, laureate head of Saturn right, harpa, PISO behind, control mark (wheel) above, CAEPIO below, q below chin, rev. two quaestors seated left between two stalks of grain, ad frv emv ex s c in two lines in exergue, 3.92g (Craw. 330/1b; RSC Calpurnia 5a). Ex. Steve Clarke Collection. They sold it as Cr. 330/1a, but it's Cr. 330/1b with the control mark behind the head. ATB, Aidan.

A modern elephant - recreation of a coin of Hannibal from Spain. Country: Spain Coin: 2011 10 Euro ESPANA 2011 10 EURO - Laureate head of Melqart with features of Hannibal left - Elephant walking right Shape: Round. Mint: Madrid (10,000) Wt./Size/Axis: 27.00g / 33.0mm / 0h Acquisition: Real Casa de la Moneda Madrid 20-Sep-2012 Notes: Nov 15, 12 - Reproduction of Hispano-Punic coin of Hannibal Next - something else minted in Spain

Here's a Gallic War stater. Region, Tribe: Gaul, Ambiani Coin: Gold Stater - Blank - Sinuous horse right, long spurs on horse's hindlegs Mint: (ca 58-55 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 6.11g / 16mm / - References: ABC 16 var VA 52 LT 8710 var Sills class 2a Provenances: Linda Banfield collection Acquisition: Chris Rudd Online 8-Apr-2013 Next - gold

I put a CD on today to discover that one channel of my old Rotel RA930 amplifier seems to have failed. Either that or one speaker has died. I'll open it up at the weekend and have a poke around and see if I can fix it. Anyway, here's a band I never got to see - I wanted to go once in Cork (mid 1990s?) and my friends were broke - £7 on the door was too much 😄 Student days... Here's a recent arrival: Gens: Vibia Moneyer: C. Vibius C.f. Pansa Coin: Silver Denarius PANSA - Mask of bearded Pan, right, with hair decorated with three rows of berries; behind, Pedum C·VIBIVS·C·F·C·N / IOVISAXVR - Jupiter seated left, laureate, holding patera in right hand and sceptre in left hand Mint: Rome (48 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.81g / 19mm / - References: RSC 18 (Vibia) Sydenham 948 Crawford 449/1b HCRI 20a Acquisition: Artemide Aste Online auction Asta 62E #410 11-Mar-2023 ATB, Aidan.

My only Bactrian coin... Ruler: Demetrios I State, City: Bactria Coin: Silver Obol - Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin headdress ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΔΗΜΗΤΡΟΥ - Herakles standing facing, crowning himself and holding club; monogram to inner left Mint: (ca 200 - 185 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 0.45g / 12.5mm / - References: Bopearachchi 3C SNG ANS 197 Provenances: Ex. E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online Auction NN Live Auction 22 #179 17-Jul-2016 Next - an obol

@JeandAcre - The Doors actually supported Them with Van Morrison in 1966 - scroll down to June for some photos of the two bands on stage together - http://www.doorshistory.com/doors1966.html I saw half of The Doors in 2003 in Dublin (Robby Krieger & Ray Manzarek) - with Ian Astbury singing and basically trying to look like Jim Morrison 😄 - they were then called The Doors of the 21st Century and later had to change their name - AFAICR, John Densmore sued them to stop calling themselves The Doors. Anyway, it was a great gig. To the main point of the post, inasmuch as there is a point - while I'm huge fan of the late Cathal Coughlan, I have to admit that some of his side efforts were very silly - funny, but perhaps an acquired taste - let's see 😄 Bubonique was a group with Cathal and the also sadly departed comedian Sean Hughes and some other guy whose name I can't remember which produced two albums - "20 Golden Showers" and "Trance Arse Volume 3". The former had only one track, of around an hour, which is usually broken into about twenty scabrous songs. I've just bought it online - can't wait to hear the rest of it 😄 I bought the latter when it first came out in the mid-90s and it's best described as eclectic - under Genre, discogs.com lists "Electronic, Hip Hop, Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Funk/Soul, Non-Music, Pop, Folk, World, & Country" - there's plenty there to annoy everyone. Anyway, here's a Julian Cope song they screwed around with. I actually found a recording of Sean Hughes singing the same song, possibly on his zany (underused word these days) TV comedy show. The dancers look like they're from a Tindersticks video: Here's a coin I got at a show last month. Moneyer: C. Licinius Macer Coin: Silver Denarius - Bust of Apollo seen from behind, with head turned to left and with thunderbolt in right hand - Minerva in quadriga, right, holding shield and reins in left hand and spear in right hand Exergue: C·LICINIVS·L·F / MACER Mint: Rome (84 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.78g / 20mm / 2h References: RSC 16 (Licinia) Sydenham 732 Crawford 354/1 Acquisition: Hibernian Coins and Notes Irish International Coin Fair 18-Feb-2023 ATB, Aidan.

Good work!

It was a 5-coin week - here's one of them: Gens: Vibia Moneyer: C. Vibius C.f. Pansa Coin: Silver Denarius PANSA - Mask of bearded Pan, right, with hair decorated with three rows of berries; behind, Pedum C·VIBIVS·C·F·C·N / IOVIS·AXVR· - Jupiter seated left, laureate, holding patera in right hand and sceptre in left hand Mint: Rome (48 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.81g / 19mm / - References: RSC 18 (Vibia) Sydenham 948 Crawford 449/1b HCRI 20a Acquisition: Artemide Aste Online auction Asta 62E #410 11-Mar-2023 ATB, Aidan.

For St. Patrick's Day - the 1928 Proof Set of the first coins of the Irish Free State. ATB, Aidan.

I got trapped in a 6-hr design review and missed bidding. The RR lots seemed.low yesterday. ATB, Aidan.

And now it's got the correct provenance for both the current auction and the Jan. 2022 listing! https://www.romanumismatics.com/310-lot-176-domitian-as-caesar-a-sestertius?arr=0&auction_id=0&box_filter=0&cat_id=&department_id=&exclude_keyword=&export_issue=0&gridtype=listview&high_estimate=0&image_filter=0&keyword=Domitian sestertius RIC 295&list_type=list_view&lots_per_page=100&low_estimate=0&month=&page_no=1&paper_filter=0&search_type=&sort_by=lot_number&view=lot_detail&year= Yesterday, it was the private English collection for the Jan 2022 listing as well as the March 2023 listing. The acsearch listing for Jan 2022 is still showing the "private English collection". Maybe they don't remember which provenances are real and which are made-up, so just went with the "private English collection" until noticing this thread 😄 ATB, Aidan.

Here's some Post Rock with 3epkano - part of the soundtrack to a showing of Nosferatu. 3epkano were best-known for playing live to silent movies - Nosferatu, Metropolis, Der Golem, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I saw them playing Caligari in Christchurch Cathedral (Dublin, not NZ!) maybe 7-8 years ago at Halloween and they were super. More of 3erkano's other work on Vimeo - I posted Der Golem on CoinTalk before. https://vimeo.com/user8812329 Some of the group are now known as Unshaped Form and have an album which can be streamed online (or indeed purchased) - https://www.unshapedform.com/ Here's a €10 coin issued in 2020 (actually, I think its release was delayed until well into 2021 due to Covid) with Christchurch Cathedral: As Nosferatu is based on Dracula, I might as well throw in the Bram Stoker/Dracula €15 coin too. ATB, Aidan.

The obverse of the original coin is nice - I'd leave it obverse-up in the tray if I owned it. I don't know what things cost any more - I posted this coin in another thread a few days ago - it cost less than £300 including fees in August 2013 and is the plate coin in HGC Vol. 3, part 2 for no. 1493. I guess I could get more for it now! ATB, Aidan.

I got a few from Tintinna during the week. This is one of them - Cr. 472/2 - scarcer than the variety with Juno Sospita on the obverse (Cr. 472/1). Moneyer: L. Papius Celsus Coin: Silver Denarius TRIVMPVS - Laureate head of Triumphus, right, with trophy over shoulder L·PAPIVS CELSVS·III·VIR - Wolf, right, placing stick on fire; on right, eagle fanning flames Mint: Rome (45 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.61g / 18mm / - References: RSC 3 (Papia) Sydenham 965 Crawford 472/2 HCRI 83 RBW 1649 Acquisition: Numismatica Tintinna Online auction Asta 104 #109 25-Feb-2023 ATB, Aidan.

I bought this in 2013 in Roma's first e-Sale with the provenance "Tannenbaum Collection". The sale included many other coins from the same collection. I don't know who Tannenbaum is or was, though a search at the time led me to think he may have been a Steve Tanenbaum, a US coin dealer who specialised in US tokens and was tragically killed when knocked down by a car driven by a murder suspect on the run from police. Interestingly, or not, I have a couple of books by the guy's brother, Andrew Tanenbaum, who invented Minix, a forerunner to Linux, and is a well-known computer scientist. Anyway, I don't actually know if it's the same person (with a spelling error in the sale information), or some other Tannenbaum collection - anyone know? Ruler: Lysimachos State, City: Thrace, Lysimacheia Coin: Silver Tetradrachm - Diademed head of the deified Alexander with horn of Ammon right ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΥ - Athena enthroned left, holding Nike, resting left elbow on shield, spear behind; lion's head before, two monograms in exergue Mint: (After 280 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 16.95g / 30mm / 10h References: cf ANSMN 13, 21 HGC Vol. 3, part 2, 1493 (this coin) Provenances: Tannenbaum Collection Acquisition: Roma Numismatics Online auction E-Sale 1 #153 31-Aug-2013 About 2 years ago I noticed that this coin is the plate coin for Hoover's Handbook of Greek Coinage vol. 3 part 2, no. 1493: ATB, Aidan.

I don't have too many fallen horsemen, but this one attracted me when I saw it - it's more silvery than black in reality - I need to shoot it again. Ruler: Constantius II (Augustus) Coin: Bronze AE2 D N CONSTANTIVS P F AVG - Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right FEL TEMP REPARATIO - Soldier standing left, spearing fallen horseman Exergue: CONSZ* Mint: Constantinople (ca. 348-351 AD) Wt./Size/Axis: 4.65g / 24mm / 0h References: RIC 82 (Vol. VIII, Constantinople) Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online auction NN Live 59 #814 26-Jul-2020 Next - some other LRB with a lot of silvering remaining

If you read the document on the first page of this thread, it says the Eid Mar was shipped to the US on 29th Nov. 2020 (i.e., a month after the auction). Therefore, I assume it had a US-based buyer and indeed that US Customs seized the Eid Mar then. ATB, Aidan.

This BBC investigation is the background to it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-d4a6df1b-995d-4d0d-a562-43bd47b86afb