Jason23

Great post! I too have a coin from his collection. This coin is listed in Smyth under Tablet XIV, no. 18 (p.215).

Congrats on the coin, it is a nice issue to have. This is my coin I won from a Stack's Bowers auction in 2021, Donna I do like the different noses on your and my coins, maybe someone comparing profiles at the mint haha

Thanks Steve, I'm keen to collect the known XVI issues although the rare RRC 232/1 examples might be hardest to come by!

Thanks Phil, yes it has definitely taken pride of place and was very happy to pay a bit extra for it!

Thank you! I've been getting some great support with resources to follow for provenance hunting, but of course always welcome more advice and tips!

Thanks Octavius! Will be very happy to share some of my Etruscan collection 🙂

Thank you!

Thanks Donna! Have been meaning to join for a while. Might share some of my antiquities too - love seeing yours!

Hi all, I have just joined this forum, and thought I would share a coin I won earlier this year. For coins I am focussed on early Roman Republican coins, for antiquities I am focussed predominantly on Iron Age Etruscan artefacts (the so-called "Villanovan"). Moneyer: L.ATILI NOM, 141BC, Rome mint, denarius Obverse: Helmeted head of Roma r.; behind, XVI. Border of dots. Reverse: Victory in biga r., holding whip in r. hand and reins in l. hand; below, L•ATILI ligated; in exergue, NOM. Line border. Dimensions: 20.0mm; 3.83g; 8h Condition: Very fine; cabinet tone References: RRC 225/1; Sydenham 444; BMCRR Rome 904 Provenance: Switzerland – Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Auction 138, 18 May 2023, lot 401 (Graham Collection of Roman Republican Coins); reputedly private purchase from Jules Florange on 23 March 1974. I was super happy to obtain this coin. For memory, Andrew McCabe considers this type as a "classic rarity” (I read this somewhere, but cannot recall where!). Crawford notes that the legend NOM, in the position occupied by the name ROMA on contemporary issues, appears without exception on official pieces of this issue. The substitution of NOM for ROMA is unexplained; I like Crawford’s explanation in the Roman tradition of punning names that we often seen on the Roman Republican coinage. The moneyer is perhaps L. Atilius Nomentanus and perhaps identical with the Nomentanus who was probably on the staff of Q. Mucius Scaevola, pr. 120BC in Asia. I've not yet started a deep dive on provenance (but on a first pass, no match in Schaefer)!