I stole this coin today: Titus denarius

@Sallent I saw it at JA's auction and found the portrait style very attractive.

Mine :


ROMAN EMPIRE, TITUS Denarius RIC 26a Rome mint, AD 80
IMP TITUS CAES VESPASIAN AVG PM, Laureate bust of Titus right
TRP IX IMP XV COS VIII PP, Dolphin entwined around anchor
3.56 gr
Ref : RIC # 26a, RCV # 2517, Cohen # 309

We'll follow that with great interest. I'm near to put $1 on the table to see what happens when they'll show off

Q

 

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Next week, EID MAR denarius, opening bid $1.

 

What would the B.I.N be on that coin?

 

I can't believe that @AncientJoe is selling his coin!

 

Well, if that was the case, never say never. Do you take payment in fish, 6 year old child, deed to the house, and car title?

 

No more children, God help me.

 

I had my car in the shop last week and the guys said, "This is gonna cost you about a thousand bucks, or your first born." I said, "Hang on, let me get her."

 

I would be interested in placing a substantial wager on this.

 

In the 1970's I was the photographer for the American Cichlid Association and took many fish photos. There was a Florida fish farmer that even sent me unusual species for me to photograph (my pay was keeping the fish). When my daughter was born, the fish room became the nursery and we cut way back. If you can name these three species, you are way too deep into fish.

 

One of my favorite Flavian types

 

Oops, didn't include the photo or link -

http://www.stoa.org/albums/The-Flavian-Dynasty/30_Domitian_denarius_2a.sized.jpg

 

When I turned 16 I took a job in a pet store. We had dozens of freshwater aquariums and there were many African cichlids. It's been more than 35 years since I've dealt with them but I remember a few. The large fish on the right looks like a jaguar cichlid. The one on the left... convict cichlid? I don't know about the top fish nor do I remember the Latin names for any of them.

I don't have a Titus dolphin & anchor denarius to show but here's a fishy coin


ARKADIA, Psophis
450-30 BCE
AR obol, 10 mm, 0.69 gm
Obv: forepart of Kerynitian hind right
Rev: fish right, O above, archaic psi below, all within circle incuse
Ref: BCD Peloponnesos 1680 (same dies). Rare.
ex Frank James Collection
ex BCD Collection

 

=> what about delivery costs?

 

Marsha, is that your coin? (man, I don't recall seeing that one before?)

=> it is totally awesome!!

 

Thanks, Steve-O! I snuck it in to someone else's thread a couple of years ago and never got around to making a dedicated post. It's a very cool coin . The obverse shows the fabled golden horned deer whose capture was one of Herakles's twelve labors.

 

Terrific example @lehmansterms !!!

That's definitely a very cool coin @TIF I especially love what the deer was meant to represent.

EX Frank James ??? Any relation to that well-known numismatist Jesse??

 

Congrats on the Titus @Sallent, if I hadn't been out in the wilds with no internet, that baby would have been MINE!

 

Well, Ill take a break any way I can get one. I honestly didnt think I was going to win it because I low bid it. I even told JA to move my bid over to another coin when I got outbid on this one, because I was sure there was no way someone else wasn't going to outbid me. Well, now I know why I lucked out.