Bing has a rat, I have a bug

Most of my RR collection is silver, but it is getting more difficult (read as expensive) to keep adding coins I do not have. I am considering how to proceed. Continue with RR silver (some of them look stunning), or go for the older and more import restricted cast bronze. This week I have done both.
Central Italy Cast Sextans
Mint - Tuder, Umbria
Minted 220 - 200 BC
O - Cicada (or fly) & 2 dots
R - Trident Vt & 2 dots (Haberline shows 3 forms of the second letter)
T&V - 167 (161 for heavier series)
V - 226
Syd AG - 225
HNI - 49
Haberline Plate 81, 23 - 26
Garrucci - Plate LV, 9

I posted my fly coin on my blog -
http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-cast-coin-from-umbria-tuder-tv-167.html

 

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what does this coin look like in very high grade ?

 

Hmm, a cicada eh? I believe you, I think. Only joking.
Now I have to go look for this one.

 

Nice one, rrdenarius!

The OP coin is about as high-grade as these get.

 

Looks great - these are cast coins, as the OP mentioned, so they will never have the sharp features of a struck coin.

 

Love it... there's something appealingly atavistic about these Italian cast coins.

 

mmmm, an ancient cast coin with a bug on it (it's a total winner!!) ... I'm jealous

 

Very cool piece RR, you have a nice blog.

 

Atavistic. There's a word I once learned and have long forgotten. Thanks for the reminder. A great word for the collector of ancients.

 

THESE cast coins will never have the sharp features of a struck coin due to how they were cast. Cast coins can have incredibly sharp and intricate figures, depending on how they were cast.

 

Very cool and interesting piece, JA (EDIT: AKA rdenarius)

Hmmm, I wonder if this surge in interest for coins of the very early Roman era is the consequential influence of that well known RR enthusiast, 'Alegandron'? I even have a few types pending on bid.

You 'guys' are a bad influence on each other and especially on ME!!

 

It's not my coin. But maybe the OP will send it to me? Do you know something I don't?

 

Oops, Did it again...switching between websites and otherwise trying to muti-task appears to be talent I haven't come close to achieving.

My apologies 'rdenarius'

 

neat RRD...new to me, i wasn't familiar with the type at ll. i look at acsearch under "umbria", they have all sorts of cool cast stuff....frogs, dogs, seed pods...pretty neat. i would have thought them tesserae of some type.

 

I'm feeling itchy all over. 'Bugs'.........owwwww. Rats I can deal with (cyanide). Bugs, bug the hell out of me......there's just so danged many of them......they're poised to rule the planet.

 

Naw, not cyanide for rats... Prescription WARFARIN (COUMADIN)... the blood thinner for Heart Issues, also known as Rat Poisoning...

 

Thurlow and Vecchi's book on Italian cast money is inexpensive and shows lots of coins. I also like the Haberline download - http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWireIndex=index&p=1&lang=FR&q=Haeberlin
I think this is the first one of these I have seen at auction. I have seen the sleeping dog one from Tuder, but have not bid on it yet.

 

Very impressive! I have been collecting cast and struck Roman coinage for a while now, and have never seen one with a fly; I like it! And I appreciate you starting this thread, since it gives me an opportunity to show off my cast quadrans with a boar.

Roman cast quadrans 280-269 BC, Rome mint
Obv: Boar running left, three pellets below
Rx: Boar running right, three pellets below
Ref: Italian Cast Coinage (new Vecchi) 36, T&V 11, RRC 18/4, Syd 18,54, SR545,
AE aes grave quadrans 89.92gm - 42 mm

[now Steve, before you even get started...I am well aware there are 2 boars on this coin]

 

I want one

 

D-Con rat chow seems to work best for me,has a new formula for the resistant species and gets the tree rats too!