rrdenarius

I am sad to hear of Terrence's passing. He was a good friend and knew how to present ancient coins so others could appreciate them. He often talked about coins he showed youth in his part of the world. I will miss his phone calls.

mine was well used

Thanks for your feedback. I made an error when I said The Syrios Project would be tested. I helped test Syrios last year. It is not complete, but not being tested. The web site to be tested is FLAME. FLAME shows coin hoard locations on a map and lists items found. The site can sort data and allows downloading, see below, to a spreadsheet. A systems student called me by Zoom and asked me to test buttons (links) and look for stuff. I sent the same note, as above, to lots of folks. The coordinating professor sent me the following note, oops.

DM me if you are interested in helping test a coin web site. I spent an hour last week, via zoom, with a systems student testing (is it debugging if you find no errors?) the site shown below.The Syrios Project (uh.edu)

A similar denomination, but a couple of millennia earlier from Rome: 2.5 (IIS) and 5 (V) Asses

The Syrios Project is an effort by a professor at the U of Houston to make ancient coins more accessible to students. One of their pages shows where coins found at Antioch were minted. There are other maps on the subject showing they traveled a long way at times. The Syrios Project (uh.edu)

Not ancient, but I saw one like this while looking for ancient coins and had to have it. The first one I saw was from an Italian company and they would not ship to the US. I am glad another company was willing to ship me a man-eating snake coin. ITALY, Milan. Galeazzo and Barnabo Visconti, 1355-1378 AD. AR Pegione (2.64 gm). Imperial eagle above the arms of the Visconti / St. Ambrose seated facing holding whip and crosier. Biaggi.1457. Toned uneven VF.

XVI coins were one of the first subsets of RR denarii I pursued. I picked up #4 in 2016 and am still waiting on #5. I think all of us here would like #6. L. Iulius, 141 BC, Obv - Roma right, behind XVI, Rev Dioscuri galloping, below L.IVLI; Cr 224 - two of these C. Titinius, 141 BC, Obv - Roma to right, XVI behind; Rev - Diana in biga right, C•TITINI, ROMA below. Cr 226 M. Aufidius Rusticus, 140 BC, Obv - Roma right; RVS below chin; XVI behind; Jupiter in quadriga, M•AVF below; ROMA in exergue. Cr 227 C. Valerius Flaccus, 140 BC, Obv - Roma to right, behind, XVI; Rev. Victory in biga, above - FLAC, below - C.VAL.C.F; in exergue, ROMA; Cr 228 this coin is from Jean Elsen & ses Fils S.A. auction 135, #115 - L. Atilius Nomentanus, 141 BC, Obv - Roma r.; behind, XVI; Rev. Victory biga r, below, L·ATILI and in exergue, NOM; Cr 225 this one is not in Crawford! - Monnaies d’Antan; Mail Bid Sale N°17; LOT 238; May 22, 2015 Cn. Gellius, 138 BC, Obv - Roma to right, behind, XVI; all within laurel wreath; Rev. Mars in quadriga, below CN.GEL, in exergue, ROMA; Cr. 232

I am a fan of scale weights. The Athena weight with a Gorgon crest is lead filled and weighs about 14 pounds. The hollow Byzantine Empress weight is 4 lbs.

I had an interesting package arrive last year. It looked like someone's dog got ahold of it. The bag should have contained two weights - one uncia & four uncia; two thimbles and a silver nugget. the two pieces above did not make it. What arrived is below. The best piece in the lot, by far, is my first 4 uncia weight. Note that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.