My first 2022 Coins

Judging after some prices, a lot of people watched this auction :|

 

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Yes - I bought a couple of low end things at OKish prices, but some prices were silly

While I'm at it, I might as well throw in my Cr. 407/2 - it would be nicer if the flan could hold the full design!



ATB,
Aidan.

 

I bought also a P. Clodius M.f. Turrinus but I'm wondering why.
Best excuse is "one cannot buy a single coin from an auction"


Well, I will just have to ignore the (lack of) hair on the obverse and the missing letters on the reverse - both probably due to a silly mistake from the mint worker, otherwise it's an interesting coin.

 

Congrats to your pickup, especially since it's on your wish list.

I also have the same thought after winning a single coin.

 

Thanks for sharing, @akeady.Your coin has an interesting border. Maybe different workshop?

Thanks for sharing, @Bing.

 

The Hosidius coin, as mentioned by @happy_collector, has a strong myth behind it. Pasting it here.
It would also explain the disproportion between the boar and the hound.

The classical myth of the Calydonian boar served to illustrate the need for paying proper respect to the gods and the consequences for not doing so. King Oeneus of Aetolia had forgotten to accord proper rites to the goddess Diana (Artemis), and for this sacrilege she sent a chthonic beast, the wild boar of Calydon, to ravage the Aetolian hinterland. The boar was the bane of the people, destroying vineyards and crops and forcing everyone to take shelter behind their city walls. With starvation ensuing, a hunt was organized, and most of the illustrious heroes of Greece's heroic age took part (with the exception of Hercules who fought his own chthonic beast, the Erymanthean boar). Amongst all these male heroes was one female, the heroine Atalanta, and she won the signal honor of being the first to wound the boar, having pierced its side with an arrow. For this she was awarded its hide. Although the precise meaning is lost to us, it can be assumed that Hosidius employed the type of the Calydonian boar to illustrate a claimed descent from one of the heroes involved in the hunt, perhaps from Atalanta herself.

 

It's an interesting series - with serrated and non-serrated coins (Cr. 407/1 & Cr. 407/2). The styles are quite different too. The serrated flans are larger and the dies used for them have a larger, lower relief head of Diana than the dies used for the non-serrated coins. The obverse legend elements GETA and III VIR are on opposite sides for the two issues - i.e. the serrated coins have GETA on the left of the bust, while it's on the right for the non-serrated coins.

There is a very rare variety which has the non-serrated legend arrangement but is struck on a serrated flan. In "The RBW Collection of Roman Republican Coins", there is a note on this intermediate type which I will just photograph:



ATB,
Aidan.

 

Thanks for your additional info regarding the serrated flan, Aidan.