Wow what wonderful coins, thanks for posting/sharing these.
+1, remarkable esp the AEs.
I do rather like the quinarius and As with the prawn. Its always fun to see the variety of symbols used on the republican coins.
I'm glad you like the seafood. The prawn
quinarius is the only known example, apart from a mythical coin illustrated in a 19th century line drawing. The prawn
as is almost as
rare. The
owl quinarius is the only one known. The tiny
Janus head and
horse silver is probably a silver as and is one of about 6 known. The
bucranium headed silver
sestertius is also pretty
rare. The
Apollo /
horse drachm ( as distinct from the
didrachm) is perhaps one of two or three known to be in private
hands. I already discussed the
rarity of the two
Lex Papiria E.L.P. Sestertii on
Forum a few weeks ago. STR has many really
rare silver coins.
His bronzes are also pretty nice and the
brockages are cool, especially the bashed up
Cleopatra. I don't think it was subject to damnatio however, just some rough circulation.
As is well known
brockages are usually of the
obverse, showing once again that Cleo was on the
obverse of the Antony /
Cleopatra denarius and evidently wore the boots.