A Modest Cast Bronze Collection

Cast Roman Republican coins and bars can be quite expensive. My most expensive half dozen coins are in the pictures below. I view my collection as a modest one. It has only one cast As and no II, III, V or X pieces. You can see a bit more here:
http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2017/05/my-cast-bronze-collection.html

What I could fit in one pic -

most pieces flipped

Aes Rude

RS bar pieces

Un-marked bar pieces

The top two have marks (X) and the bottom three decorations.

broken ax & knife pieces, rings, ax head and some interesting shapes

cast shells and coins

bone, lead, bronze and silver astragalus pieces and coins; also some weights

 

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that's a very good collection friend! impressive to be sure.

 

Not into the stuff much, but some neat pieces & love seeing collections laid out.

Thanks for sharing.

 

@gregarious
do you have Roman Dice? Have you posted them here?

 

yeah i have these, but i've not posted any of my artifacts as such on cointalk other than in my avitar

 

MODEST??? You have a museum!! Cool collection.

 

I am impressed!

 

That's a fantastic collection. I'd like to get the whole prow cast series but I don't know if I'll ever get around to it. Do you know where the different astragaloi are from?

 

That's a spectacular collection. Sure maybe modest compared to people with more zeros at the end of their budget but I'm impressed.

 

The man has an entire museum exhibit's worth of Roman proto-money and he calls it modest. Dude, that's one impressive collection.

 

Nice collection were these pieces purchased or found from digs? Would love to find artifacts as such.

 

when you have to say "here's what i could fit in one pic" ...your collection isn't very modest.

but it is pretty darn awesome!

 

Awesome stuff!

 

@rrdenarius, you should consider doing an exhibit at one of the coin shows. You have built an unusual but awesome collection, and an exhibit would be very educational.

As you know, I love this stuff...your collection takes my breath away!

 

Wow!! The group shots are stunning. And those aes grave... whoa!

 

I'll disagree with @rrdenarius on this point. His extraordinary collection of early Roman and Italian bronze coins and pre-coins is far from modest!! I'm particularly in awe of his several aes signatum bar fragments. Below is a tray shot of most of my aes grave and aes rude. I've got a couple more of each that aren't in this tray, but nowhere near the scale of @rrdenarius !

 

My Gosh Gene, I NEVER get bored looking at your early RR AES collection. You inspired me many times to expand my collection. I still have to capture Ramo Secco, Aes Formata, and a few others. Love 'em! You are costing me some real money keeping up! Might solicit some advice in the future... Thanks for your fantastic posting!

 

The silver one, my avitar, was described by the vendor:
Roman Republican, Aes formatum, AE/AG knucklebone. Etruria or Latium, 6th-9th century BC. 59.8 g, RRR, About EF, Silver alloy? Silvered? Partial green patina. Apparently unpublished. (Note: even though the vendor said unpublished, I found a sales record of at least one silver knucklebone of about the same size.)

The bronze one was sold by an Italian firm.

The others were sold by a London auction firm and were advertised as:
Roman Legionary Knuckle-Bone Gaming Piece Group; Antiquities - Roman; 1st century BC-2nd century AD

 

The avatar piece is a real winner. The early Italic traditions involving astragaloi are fascinating, particularly in Locri, but all over, really.