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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!

I saw a funny article recently - people go to Taylor Swift concerts, endure three hours of it and then... can't remember a thing! https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65765368 Maybe that isn't a bad thing? Anyway, I can vividly remember some gigs from decades ago - the Fatima Mansions gig in Sir Henry's in March '93, for which I left a wedding reception early (not my wedding!) - it was amazing, culminating in a 10-minute rendition of "Blues for Ceausescu" and an aggravation of an old ankle injury for me, but I didn't notice that until the following day. As we filed out, mostly in worn-out silence, I overheard two guys in front of me: "What did you think of it?... Man, I'm refreshed, renewed" and that summed it up. Thirty years on, it's still a benchmark and I doubt Ms Swift's efforts come close, but I'll admit I haven't been to any of her gigs. Anyway, cleaning out my car recently, I located a Whipping Boy CD, which was especially nice as it's not on Spotify and is brilliant. I posted a live version of this on CoinTalk for the 50th anniversary of the first manned Moon landing, as it was slightly relevant - this is the album version. Here's a fairly recent arrival struck by C. Valerius Flaccus as proconsul in Gaul. Cr 365/1a has a control symbol behind the head, /1b has a control letter and /1c has a symbol in front of Victory. Gens: Valeria Moneyer: C. Valerius Flaccus Coin: Silver Denarius - Bust of Victory, right, draped; behind, control-symbol (rudder) C·V͡A͡L·FLA IMPERAT EX S·C - Legionary eagle; on left, standard of maniple of hastati; on right, standard of maniple of principes Mint: Massalia (82 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.85g / - / - References: RSC 12b (Valeria) Sydenham 747a Crawford 365/1a BMCRR Gaul 9 Acquisition: Jean Elsen Online auction Auction 154 #339 17-Mar-2023 Rock on, Aidan.

Here are Roma and Victory... Gens: Poblicia Moneyer: C. Publius Malleolus Coin: Silver Denarius - Laureate head of Apollo right C·MALL - Roma seated left on shields, holding sceptre, crowned by Victory standing behind her Exergue: ROMA Mint: Rome (96 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.91g / 19mm / - References: RSC 4 (Poblicia) Sydenham 614 Crawford 335/2 Provenances: "From a European Collection" Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online auction NN Live 66 #316 27-Jun-2021 Next - Apollo

This is my most recent silver coin acquisition: Gens: Claudia Moneyer: Appius Claudius Pulcher Coin: Silver Denarius - Helmeted head of Roma right - Incuse version of obverse Mint: Roma (112-111 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.90g / 19mm / 0h References: cf. Crawford 299/1a or /1b Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online auction NN Live 80 #491 2-Apr-2023 Notes: May 13, 23 - Obverse brockage Next - another brockage

This is my favourite Marcian. Ruler: Marcian (Augustus) Coin: Bronze AE4 D N MARCIANVS P F AVG - Diademed draped and cuirassed bust right - Monogram of Marcian in wreath Wt./Size/Axis: 0.93g / 11mm / 10h Acquisition: Elias AP Auction 27-Nov-2011 Also my only Marcian 🙂 ATB, Aidan.

Some ancient coins are beautiful! Here are some random pictures of my coins. Mostly just of one side. Enough! Some are in good condition, some I just like the style. Keep them coming! Aidan.

Here's a Saturn. Gens: Memmia Moneyer: L. Memmius Galeria Coin: Silver Denarius ROMA - Laureate head of Saturn right; harpa to right D• - Venus driving biga right, holding sceptre and reins; above, Cupid flying left, holding wreath Exergue: L•MEMMI Mint: Rome (106 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.87g / 18mm / 3h References: RSC 2a (Memmia) Sydenham 574a Crawford 313/1c RBW 1159 var Provenances: Ex. Berk BBS 179 (24-May-2012), lot 176 Acquisition: CNG Online auction E-auction 484 #645 27-Jan-2021 Next - Venus and/or Cupid

Oh! - a year since I joined 🙂 Thanks for setting up this place, @Restitutor, and I hope to celebrate many more birthdays here with the gang. <Random coin pic> ATB, Aidan.

I don't believe RIC is public domain and Spink will try to take down any copies posted - which is likely why any websites with such PDF copies have disappeared. I don't see any copyright information on your RIC VI but the other volumes you posted do have it, as does my paper copy of RIC VI: Stick with the dead tree editions! ATB, Aidan.

Actually, I'll cheat - this looks like an aqueduct but is a bridge/viaduct - from a medal of Pius IX from 1851 (Bartolotti E 851).

I have a couple of them - this is the better one: ATB, Aidan.

Fecunditas on a Severan dynasty coin... Ruler: Julia Maesa (Augusta) Coin: Silver Denarius JVLIA MAESA AVG - Draped bust right FECVNDITAS AVG - Fecunditas standing left, extending hand over a child and holding cornucopiae Mint: Rome (ca 218-222 AD) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.17g / 19.5mm / 6h References: RIC 249 (Elagabalus) RSC 8 Provenances: Ex. E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online Auction NN Live Auction 26 #437 23-Oct-2016 Next - Fecunditas on a non-Severan dynasty coin

This was in the Duke of Northumberland's collection, catalogued by Admiral Smyth in 1856. Admiral Smyth was a very interesting character in his own right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Smyth If I recall correctly, I first read of him in an article by Phil Davis on the Erato vs Terpsichore identification - Smyth got it right and was then ignored for over a century. Moneyer: Pinarius Natta Coin: Silver Denarius X - Helmeted head of Roma right NATTA - Victory in biga right Exergue: ROMA Mint: Rome (149 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.40g / 18mm / 9h References: RSC 1 (Pinaria) Sydenham 390 Crawford 208/1 Smyth p. 167 #45 (this coin) Provenances: Ex. Noble Sale 107A, lot 3573 Ex. Colin Pitchfork Collection Ex. Sotheby's 4-Nov-1982, lot 232 Ex. Duke of Northumberland Collection Acquisition: Del Parker NYINC Bourse 11-Jan-2019 The Northumberland collection - it was the fourth duke whose collection was catalogued by Smyth, though the coins had been in the family for many years according to Smyth so the collection was probably formed by one of his ancestors - was sold by Sotheby's in 1982 and I have two coins from it now, neither of them exceptional, except in having a reasonably old provenance. P.S. The catalogue is available online (unfortunately, there are no plates, but some of the coins are illustrated in the 1982 sales catalogue): https://archive.org/details/descriptivecata00nortgoog/ Next - another coin with an old and/or interesting provenance.

I hadn't looked at this thread for a while - I do have a siliqua of Honorius. RIC 12a (Milan) ATB, Aidan.

Today is the first anniversary of the untimely death of Cathal Coughlan - here was an encore from the penultimate Microdisney gig (the following night in Cork being the last): And a John Cale cover from a few months later, the very last time I saw CC - from a "Mahler Reimagined" gig: Here's a coin I haven't posted here before: Coin: Silver Denarius X - Helmeted head of Roma right - The Dioscuri galloping right Exergue: ROMA Mint: Rome (After 211 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 4.23g / 19mm / 5h References: RSC 2 (Anon.) Sydenham 229 Crawford 53/2 Brinkman & Debernardi C3 Acquisition: Michael Stolt Facebook 8-Nov-2022 ATB, Aidan.

I've ended up with quite a few Neros. Tetradrachm of Antioch, Prieur 79: The aureus equivalent of Ambrozie's denarius above - RIC 44: Nero as Caesar under Claudius - RIC 77 (Claudius) Temple of Janus aureus - RIC 50: Port of Ostia sestertius, though a miserable one - RIC 513: My favourite Nero - a small module brass as - RIC 220: Miserable triumphal arch sestertius (why did I buy this?) - RIC 147: Annona & Ceres sestertius - RIC 391: A nice little hemidrachm - RIC 617: Nero & Poppaea Alexandria tet - RPC 5275: Indian copy aureus - cf. RIC 25, 31, 36, 40: Aureus equivalent of Donna's RIC 71 above (aureus not in RIC, but elsewhere catalogued): Similar to Roman Collector's, but worse condition - RIC 64: Killed two birds with one stone at the time - Nero & Divus Claudius didrachm of Caesarea (Cappadocia) - RIC 613: Thanks for getting to the end 😄 Aidan.

Something like this, I'd say: https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=310821 Not electrum, but copper or a mostly-copper alloy (bronze). The specific gravity you mention is too low to be gold or silver. Aidan.

This arrived during the week. Ruler: Caracalla (Augustus) Coin: Gold Aureus ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT - Head of Caracalla, laureate, right P M TR P XV COS III P P IOV VIC - Jupiter, nude to waist, seated left, holding Victory in extended right hand and sceptre in left hand; at feet, left, eagle Mint: Rome (212 AD) Wt./Size/Axis: 7.46g / 20mm / 6h References: RIC 200 Acquisition: Naville Numismatics Online auction NN Live 80 #644 2-Apr-2023

Forked beard... Ruler: Marcus Aurelius (Augustus) Coin: Brass Sestertius DIVVS M ANTONINVS PIVS - Bare head right CONSECRATIO - Eagle standing right on garlanded altar Exergue: http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/symbols/imperial/symbol18.gif http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/symbols/imperial/symbol3.gif http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/spacer.gif Mint: Rome (180 AD) Wt./Size/Axis: 24.63g / 31mm / 6h References: RIC 657 (Commodus) Acquisition: Roma Numismatics Online Auction E-Sale 11 #252 23-Aug-2014 Next - eagle

These arrived today. An aureus of Caracalla with a couple of holes (RIC 200), an RR as (Cr. 355/1a) and an RR denarius (Cr 300/1). The denarius is a brockage. They're all on a very useful reference on Papal medals by Bartolotti. I collect these and the 19th century examples are often very well engraved. ATB, Aidan.

I got stuck in YouTube again tonight - Aslan, Gilbert O'Sullivan (!), Session Motts, Bubonique (bizarre Freebird cover which ends up sounding like 2 Unlimited) and finally The Riptide Movement. Here's TRM's best-known song. I've only seen them once - they played at the end of the Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon in Dublin one year and were pretty good. Here's a coin I got a couple of months ago and gave to my nephew as he'd asked me about ancient coins a couple of weeks before. One of these was my first RR denarius and now he's got one too - maybe he'll be hooked too! Gens: Anonymous Coin: Silver Denarius - Head of Apollo, right, wearing oak-wreath; below, thunderbolt - Jupiter in quadriga, right; holding reins in left hand and hurling thunderbolt with right hand Mint: Rome (86 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 3.60g / 19mm / - References: RSC 226 (Anon.) Sydenham 723 Crawford 350A/2 RBW 1333 Acquisition: Numismatica Tintinna Online auction Asta 104 #96 25-Feb-2023 ATB, Aidan.

Ruler: Kroisos State, City: Lydia, Sardes Coin: Silver Twelfth Stater - Confronted heads of lion and bull - Incuse punch Mint: Sardes (ca 550-546 BC) Wt./Size/Axis: 0.84g / 7mm / - References: Berk 25 SNG Kayhan 1019 Acquisition: Roma Numismatics Online Auction E-Sale 1 #223 31-Aug-2013 Next - another lion and bull coin.