check out this sweet as

a republican AE as has been on my hit list for quite some time, i have a thing for large coins so that bumped it up to the topish part of my list. i snagged this sweet coin off ebay.



from seller...

Roman Republic, c. 169 - 158 BC, bronze as of A. CAE,

Obverse: Laureate bust of Janus.

Reverse: ROMA|I|A.CAE, prow r.

Reference: Crawford 174/1.


Ex. RBW, purchased from R. Schaefer 12/10/1993

my measurements: 33 mm, 31.8 g

i ran into things about this RBW fellow before, and looked some other stuff up. i guess he had a MASSIVE collection of republican bronze coin. looks like in 2011 and 2012, many were sold off. have a little coffee stained paper envelope with the dude notes, kind of cool.

anyway, now it's in the chrsmat71 collection. big, sweet, green, and HEAVY..feels super in hand.

feel free to pile on your republican AE coins!

 

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I've seen many a rough RR Janus. Yours is indeed sweet. I would love to own that coin. Great find!

 

Very nice. I admit though, RR bronzes have never interested me.

 

I have very few and would like some as nice as yours. My best is this sextantal series as. It's main virtue is weight of a full 40.0g. The series is named for the as weighing the original 'liberal' series sextans or 1/6 as.

My other one is half as big at 18.27g. In theory, weights were specified by law but coin exist over such a range that it is hard to tell where one series starts and the earlier one stops as far as I'm concerned.

At 14.17, this uncia (1/12 as) is from the earliest struck series. Earlier uncia were cast.

 

I used to look for these, but never found one in good enough shape at my price point. This would have met my requirements. Nice find.

 

As Bing mentions, I am also looking for one as nice as yours or Doug's but haven't found one I truly love at a price I could live with---but there's always tomorrow LOL

 

+1

 

I do like those big Janus asses too..

Here's an anonymous early as I have in may trays since 1991


Republic, As minted in Rome, circa 211-206 BC
Anepigraph, head of janus
Prow of galley right, ROMA at exergue, I above galley
37.22 gr
Ref RCV # 627

And a more recent (and lighter) featuring a monneyer's name :


D. Junius L.F. Silanus, As minted in Rome, 91 BC
Anepigraph, Head of Janus
D SILANVS L F, Prow of galley right
12.08 gr
Ref : RCV # 738

The following comment from : http://www.forumancientcoins.com/historia/historia.htm

"Decimus Junius Silanus was the son of M. Junius Silanus, who commanded the army that was defeated by the Germanic Cimbri in Transalpine Gaul.

Decimus was the stepfather of Marcus Brutus, the murderer of Caesar, having married his mother Servilia. He was elected consul in 63 for the following year ; and in consequence of his being consul designatus, he was first asked for his opinion by Cicero in the debate in the senate on the punishment of the Catilinarian conspirators. He was consul 62, with L. Licinius Morena, along with whom he proposed the Lex Licinia Julia".

Q

 

David Hendin has been selling many of these ex-RBW Republican bronzes for some time now. I never seem to be able to win one. Yours is really nice, Chris.

 

Exceptional coins both!

 

RR AE's have been eluding me as of late. This might change.

 

Super sweet new AE-RR addition, my friend!! (yummy)

... curious, is that something hovering above your cool OP coin's deck?

I have a couple as well (you've seen 'em, but here they are again!!)

AE Anonymous Semis (with Dolphin down front)




AE Anonymous Quadrans (with Elephant)




AE Anonymous As (with sucklin' wolf)




AE Anonymous As (with The Fly)




... all very cool ...

 

SUPER cool Steve!!!

 

Before today I didn't have any of these Roman republic "prow" AEs. Of course after seeing this thread, I had to go right that wrong and it pushed me over the edge about a coin I had been thinking about buying. I'll be sure to post some pictures once I get this one and the Republican Denarius I ordered with it in-hand:



Roman republican Æ Semuncia(5.50g), anonymous. 217-215 BC. Head of Mercury right, wearing winged petasos / Prow right; ROMA above. Crawford 38/7; Sydenham 87.

 

Now that IS a nice Republican prow red-spork. Really nice.

 

oh wow, that's a nice one RS...mercury looks fantastic.

i have a rough semuncia i kind of forgot about, shame on me...





stevex that is one sweet republican bronze line up!

 

Cluvius Saxula
Æ As. Uncial standard
Laureate head of bearded Janus; I (mark of value) above
Prow of galley right; I (mark of value) to right.
Crawford 173/1; Sydenham 360

 

Anonymous Trienes
Helmeted Minerva
Prow
Andrew McCabe Collection
(candidate for re-photographing...I suck)


L. Cornelius Cinna
AE quadrans
Hercules right, 3 pellets behind
Cinna above, ROMA in ex. Prow galley right, 3 pellets
BMCRR 807, Crawford 178/4

Uncia 215 BC

 

Hmmm, I feel like the only one missing even one example of these types...the closest I have is one of Pompey (Jani-form) with a barely discernible prow on the reverse...

Oh well, another thing to consider at future auctions ...

All terrific examples guys!!!

 

Wow, excellent pieces all!