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A toss up between Julia Titi and Domitia, but here's Domitia - in need of a new photo' and maybe some filters 😄 Ruler: Domitia (Augusta) Coin: Silver Cistophoric Tetradrachm DOMITIA AVGVSTA - Draped bust right VENVS AVG - Venus, naked to waist, standing right, leaning on column and holding helmet and spear Mint: Rome (or Asia?) (ca 82 AD) Wt./Size/Axis: 10.71g / 25,5mm / - Rarity: R References: RIC 847 (Domitian) RSC 9 Provenances: Numismatica Arsc Classica 72, 1563 - 16-May-2013 Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online auction NN Live Auction 8 #141 6-Jul-2014 Next - Venus.

Yes - I know - the one they should have shown is this: The real Naxos tet

Funny - the Naxos coin shown in the article looked well off and indeed was sold as a modern fake: Naxos coin in Daily Mail article Vecchi is no longer shown on Roma's website and his photo' wasn't in their latest mini-catalogue that came in the post a while back. ATB, Aidan.

That slabbed Nero is an interesting coin and was certainly a good buy. I see it was described by T&F as RIC 59, but it's not in RIC - it's the aureus equivalent of RIC 71, which is only listed as a denarius. That said, it's not super-rare - I have one too (much more worn!), from a Kuenker auction in 2009: ATB, Aidan.

Here's a coin of Nero with Claudius as well. Ruler: Nero (Augustus) Region, City: Cappadocia, Caesarea Coin: Silver Didrachm NERO CLAVD DIVI CLAVD F CAESAR AVG GERMANI - Laureate head of Nero r., early coiffure. D[IVOS CLAVD AVGVST GER]MANIC PATER AVG - Laureate head of Claudius r. Mint: (58-60AD) Wt./Size/Axis: 7.44g / - / - References: RPC 3631 RIC 613 BM 413 Syd 69 Provenances: HJB Acquisition: eBay 22/2/2008 Notes: Sep 20, 08 - The photos are from the eBay listing, I have to shoot it myself. Next - more Roman Provincial Silver

I was about to write "No way! - you'll get better for less at auction", but after looking at some recent prices the difference isn't as great as I'd assumed. I still wouldn't buy it - Nero aurei are relatively common and you will get something nicer for the same money or a bit less. I've got 4 Nero aurei, all of which cost less than this (though I haven't bought one since 2014) - ranging from less than $300 in 2010 from CNG for this Indian imitation: to a half-decent Nero & Poppaea frm Gitbud & Naumann in 2014: I remain a sucker for something cheap - e.g. this from Naville in April (£1236 with fees): I just need to get someone to fill in the holes and fix the nick and I can sell it for megabucks 😄 Good luck in your quest! Aidan.

I got this Voce Populi halfpenny recently at a coin fair in Belfast. One of the later, cruder varieties. Country: Ireland Coin: 1760 Halfpenny VOCE POPULI - Laureate bust right HIBERNIA - Hibernia seated left, holding long sceptre and branch Shape: Round. Wt./Size/Axis: 6.05g / 26mm / 5h References: DF571 Acquisition: Baldwin's Belfast Coin Fair 10-Jun-2023 It was my only purchase at the fair - I spent the rest of the day at the Ulster Museum and the Ulster Transport Museum. ATB, Aidan.

Selinunte/Selinos - one of several temples; most are a jumble of fallen stones, some have been re-erected. Next - Sicily

I find Grierson's "Byzantine Coins" very good and am reading it at the moment. https://www.dib.ie/biography/grierson-philip-a9471 The best bit in his biography above is where he went to Spink saying he was prepared to spend £5 on some coins to show students and had no intention of becoming a collector... and within 5 years he had over 7,000 coins 😄 ATB, Aidan

Here's a bowl of fruit on an Antoninus Pius denarius: Ruler: Antoninus Pius (Augustus) Coin: Silver Denarius IMP T AEL CAES HADRI ANTONINVS - Bare head right AVG PIVS PM TR P COS DES II - Fides standing right, holding corn-ears and dish of fruits Mint: Rome (138 AD) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.30g / - / - References: RIC 12 RSC 79 BMC 23 Strack 17 Acquisition: Sayles & Lavender Vcoins 31-Aug-2008 Next - Antoninus Pius

Ah, Doonesbury - I remember it, but haven't seen it for a long time. I'd forgotten about that character, which does indeed seem to be copied from Thompson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Duke). Cool 😄 The Nixie valves are in front of the pic - probably a valve clock? From the Wikipedia page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube ATB, Aidan.

Bonus points for the Nixies and the Hunter S. Thompson sketch 😄 ATB, Aidan.

Hi @DonnaML, thanks. I rarely refer to Sydenham now - I bought it before Crawford, so used it mostly before I knew better! That said, it has good plates (I believe there's a reprint which has very poor plates) including two on different types of helmets and one on different earrings. It also includes the Social War coins of the Marsic Confederation, not in Crawford. Grueber is generally much better for biographical, historical information. I wonder what the plates in the new Cambridge PDF edition of Crawford are like? I have two copies of Crawford - a 1974 one, but volume II consists only of a photocopy of the plates (I bought both volumes in Spink for £40) and a more recent edition where the plates aren't great, though it at least has the rest of volume II. Banti is pretty useful for old provenances. I found a 1913 provenance for my Sulla's Dream fourrée denarius, which was unknown to the seller (Roma 😛) and its previous owner. I eventually got the Dupriez auction catalogue. Other than that, I've only got a few coins that I've found in Banti, though I do look through the volumes often enough for acquisitions and potential acquisitions. Maybe acsearch and the rather good coryssa.org will catch up with the old entries and make it obsolete. ATB, Aidan.

Part II - "I've started, so I'll finish", as Magnus Magnusson used to say. RIC - finally completed at NYINC in January with vol. V part 2. Greek - Sear, Historia Nummorum, Lindgren - finally picked up vol. I in January too. BMCRE, Sear RCV. Greek coins... Numismatic Society of Ireland Occasional Papers - we have an active Publications Editor now, at one time more than a decade went by between publications!, Koinon (I recently ordered volume V when I took this photo' and realised I didn't have it). Random books - a nice odd volume of Cohen plus a couple of duplicates. Arma et Nummi(Woytek - I need to learn German), RSC, Varbanov, a newish series from Cambridge, comprehensive Gunmoney die study, etc. I'll spare you the catalogues - these were some books that came recently - Babelon, a couple of other RR books and two on Papal medals Just today, I received a "Catalogue of Arpadian Coinage" as a birthday gift, so I'll need to look for some more Hungarian coins 😄 I have quite a few Eraviscan denarii and some denars, but this covers earlier denars. ATB, Aidan.

I recently posted on the CoinTalk version of this, but maybe I can rehash it 😄 First, though - I see that Cambridge are selling Crawford's Roman Republican Coinage as a PDF now - downloadable or read online: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/roman-republican-coinage/BF809A7DBDE86722B6783D20FD6EABFF My own books... I collect a bit of everything, but mainly RR coins. Here are Crawford, Sydenham, RBW collection, a decent Italian reference, Kestner, some sylloges and NC 2022, plus a nice Zecchi cabinet for Italian coins and Papal medals. Underneath that, one on Emporion coins, some metallurgical surveys, Carthaginian, some more RR, Byzantine and Greek, with a few catalogues and a Hiberno-Norse book for good measure. Under that, some ANS journals, some random Roman and others, including Harl. Italian Cast Coinage, Historia Nummorun Italy, British bronze coins, three volumes of books on sestertii with nice pictures, Monumental Coins, Papal medals, etc. Mostly Krause, a few Numismatic Society of Ireland publications and some others. Hoover's Handbook of Greek Coinage, the wonderful "Coinage in the X World" series and some other books. Red Banti (RR coins), most of my Numismatic Chronicles - 2021 & 2022 are scattered elsewhere. HCRI, Green Banti (Imperial coins), Hiberno-Norse coins in the British Museum (I recently accidentally bought another copy), RIC IV part 1 and the Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage. Modern coins, Celtic coins, an interesting biographical deictionary of Irish and British numismatists, a book on St. Patrick's Coinage, etc. Some festschrifts. A couple more, plus some Greek. Spring, Testimonia nummaria, Grueber, Admiral Smyth. I can't add any more pics to this post - maybe I'll do a part II to finish it and bore everyone completely 😄 ATB, Aidan.

We're over 6 hours anyway, so this Roma will have to do! Moneyer: C. Servilius Vatia Coin: Silver Denarius ROMA - Helmeted head of Roma right; below chin, *; behind, lituus - Battle on horseback between two warriors; horseman's shield on right inscribed M Exergue: C·SERVEIL Mint: Rome (127 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.96g / 18mm / - References: RSC 6 (Servilia) Sydenham 483 Crawford 264/1 BMCRR Rome 1166 RBW 1069 Provenances: "From a European Collection" Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online auction NN Live 61 #289 8-Nov-2020 Next - lituus

Christy Dignam, lead singer of Aslan, died today after a long illness. Aslan are probably not widely known outside of Ireland, but they had at least two very good songs - This Is and Crazy World - and Christy was a great singer with a distinctive voice. Given that Aslan is the lion in Narnia, I dug up a coin with a lion. Ruler: Seleukos I State, City: Babylon Coin: Silver Stater - Baal seated left, holding sceptre in right hand, left hand on throne Γ - Lion advancing right Mint: Babylon (ca. 312-305 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 16.26g / 22mm / - References: Nicolet-Pierre 7 (pg. 291) Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online Auction NN Live 46 #66 27-Jan-2019 ATB, Aidan.

My Cr. 487/1 isn't as nice as the one above, but still... From the same moneyer, here's Cr. 487/2b with the same temple: The temple has largely disappeared - I think some of the foundations can be seen under the Capitoline Museums, if you can drag yourself away from the coins, sculptures, views over the Forum: This coin, Cr. 424/1 has a depiction of the Temple of Venus at Eryx in Sicily. Nothing much survives of this as it was built over by a Crusader castle. Gens: Considia Moneyer: C. Considius Nonianus Coin: Silver Denarius C•CONSIDI•NONIANI / S•C - Laureate and diademed bust of Venus right ERVC - Temple on summit of rocky mountain surrounded by wall with towers on each side and gate in centre Mint: Rome (57 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.92g / 19mm / 6h References: RSC 1a (Considia) Sydenham 887 Crawford 424/1 Provenances: Ex. Bernard Poindessault (1935-2014) Collection Acquisition: Roma Numismatics Online Auction E-Live Auction 1 #508 25-Jul-2018 The same Elymi people built the nearby surviving and unfinished temple at Segesta - from the looks of it in 2015, they're still working on it. The Temple of Vesta is shown in some RR coins, like this Cr. 428/2: This temple was rebuilt several times in antiquity, lastly by Septimius Severus, and seems to have survived until the 16th century, when it was plundered for marble. There's a partial reconstruction in the Forum today: ATB, Aidan.

Ruler: Severus Alexander (Augustus) Region, City: Mysia, Cyzicus Coin: Bronze Medallion ΑVΚ Μ ΑVΡ CΕVΗΡΟC ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟCΑ/ - Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right ΕΠΙC ΤΡΑ ΑVΡΑΡΙΣΤΙΑΔΟV ΚV / ΖΙΚΗΝΕ / ΟΚΟΡ - The Emperor on horse galloping right, right hand raised Mint: (222-235 AD) Wt./Size/Axis: 29.19g / 41mm / - References: BMC 263 RPC VI, 3797 Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online Auction NN Live Auction 22 #229 1-May-2016 Notes: Jun 11, 23 - https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/262747 (this coin) Next - figure on horseback

I see 41703 types in OCRE, but I suppose there are quite a few more - some RIC numbers cover more than one variety and there are many "Not in RIC" coins. I read recently (in "When Money Talks") that by the end of the nineteenth century, more than 200,000 varieties of Greek and Roman coins had been identified, but it didn't cite a source for that, IIRC. ATB, Aidan.

Sorry, they're not all different types - some are different control marks, etc. - e.g., 14 of Cr. 340/1 - one is a brockage of a type I already had and a few are just duplicates where I have no excuse. I have about 820 different types. Most are here - http://coins.uggool.net/TopPageRRCoins.html - though I've fallen behind with updates - the 952 number comes from Tantalus, there are not quite so many here - and have some more to photograph and add to Tantalus, so it's 960+ in total. I've most of the common coins, but there are many more I don't have which turn up regularly enough. I got 6 bronzes in the last Roma sale, which arrived this week and I believe two from Naville have arrived today. I had over twenty bids in the Roma auction, all on fairly unexciting-looking bronzes, but ones I didn't have. I didn't pursue them too hard, as my budget is long gone and there are many other interesting examples in the upcoming Elsen auction. Listing types from Crawford, CRRO has 1747 basic types, but that's excluding varieties (e.g., /1a, /1b, /1c would just count as /1). CRRO used to list these varieties separately from the top page and I believe there were over 2500 types then. I made a spreadsheet of Crawford with all the types along with the number of dies estimated by him (for silver) and the number in the BnF collection (for bronze) - I'll check how many he lists when I get home and report back. Of course, that's only an approximation, but near enough! Compared to your coins, @DonnaML, I've got less of the quality and more of the quantity! I intend to offload some duplicates and upgrade some 😄 ATB, Aidan.

A quick search for "left" in "Obverse description" showed 31 left-facing obverses on RR coins for me out of 952 coins, so < 3.3% for me. Here's a double lefty: Moneyer: C. Sulpicius C.f. Galba Coin: Silver Denarius D.P.P. - Jugate, laureate heads of the Dei Penates left P - Two soldiers standing facing each other, holding spears and pointing at sow which lies between them Exergue: C. SVLPICI C.F. Mint: Rome (106 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.86g / 19mm / 0h References: RSC 1 (Sulpicia) Sydenham 572 Crawford 312/1 Acquisition: Auctiones Online Auction eAuction 66 #175 15-Dec-2019 ATB, Aidan.

YouTube my downfall again tonight - ended up trapped with the classic Shoegazers, My Bloody Valentine. I used to work with the brother of the drummer about 25 years ago. He makes music as well, but not really like this. I never saw them live, they were very very loud... Here's a denarius of Cassius - included here as I apparently modified the listing on Tantalus on 14th Feb. 2019. Ruler: C. Cassius Longinus (Imperator) Gens: Cassia Coin: Silver Denarius C. CASSI / IMP - Tripod surmounted by cortina and two laurel branches; fillet hanging on either side LENTVLVS / SPINT - Capis and lituus Mint: Smyrna (?) (Spring 42 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.73g / 18mm / 6h References: RSC 14 (Cassia) Sydenham 1308 Crawford 500/1 HCRI 219 RBW 1761 Acquisition: CNG Online Auction ESale 436 #508 23-Jan-2019 ATB, Aidan.

Here's a big medal of Pius IX (year 6) with a bridge on the reverse. Issued By: Pius IX Type: Commemorative Details: PIVS IX PONT MAX ANNO VI - Bust of Pius IX right ALBANO ET ARICCIA PONTE CONJVNCTIS MDCCCLI - View of the bridge of Ariccia Designer: G. Cerbara Shape: Round. Mint: (1851) Wt./Size/Axis: 39.3g / 43mm / - References: Bart. E. 851 Acquisition: Artemide Aste Online auction Asta 61E #1101 8-Jan-2023 Next - a bridge on a coin.

@expat - Jed Thomas had a super version of that - at about 1.20 - if you haven't seen the Fast Show, this won't make much sense!