My wife and I visited London and the Shetland Islands in late Sept and early Oct. While in London, I previewed Roma Numismatics' AUCTION XVIII. I had a great time looking at their cast bronze offerings. A few hammered in my price range, including LOT 776. Anonymous Cast Æ Semis. Rome, circa 270 BC. Obv - Pegasus flying right; below, S in retrograde Rev - Pegasus flying left; below, S VF; well centered, high profile casting, small casting flaw near top sprew, good style, dark brown patina on obv & a bit lighter on rev 140.7 grams 52.7 X 49.7 X 16.6 mm This is a thick coin! 12 h – Note - All of the Cr 18.2 coins I have seen on line & in books (about 50) are medal turn. The top of the obverse and top of the reverse are at 12 on a clock dial. Crawford 18/2 Sear 530 T&V 9 ICC 34 Sydenham CRR: 16, plate 5 #16 Aes Grave: 44 Sale Cat: #77 (224 grams) & #78 HN Italy 280; Haeberlin page 84-85, #1-100; plate 35, #7-10 Garrucci page 19; Table XXXIV #2 Kircheriano Table IX #2 BMC Italy page 51 #7 From the Dr. Nicholas Lowe Collection. The following pics give a better look at the size of this coin. The top pic is next to two denarii. The second pic shows side views of two cast coins, two denarii and a US quarter. The bottom pic shows the hats my wife knit for wool week.
Fantastic!! Great patina, great details, great size . Did your wife knit those nice hats? If I recall, she's a yarnie .
Yes, she knit the hats. They were a project for WW. on the hoof fresh cut from sheep, bought one of these, not sure if it will become a shawl or a door stop in lace knitting class
Those are some massive coins, @rrdenarius ! They definitely belong in your ancient currency collection.
I’ve heard the sheep shearers and folks who work with fresh wool have soft hands. (from handling the lanolin)
