Just picked these up and got them at a pretty decent price. I have not attributed anything but I know this first pic is from the Roman Republic. This second pic has a bronze arrow head, a bronze arm, and two types of proto money I think the round one is a Shell proto money that is very worn.
Great haul! I LOVE all of it Wish I could help with the RR coin. Those prow reverses have many different types. My most recent one has a Macedonian shield at the top of the reverse: And here's my Proto Batarang (not nearly as cool as yours) and the thread I made about it https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an...r-formatum-and-ways-to-catch-villains.351497/: ROMAN REPUBLIC Aes Formatum. Centuries VI-IV BCE CENTRAL ITALY or LAZIO. Anv .: Element in semicircular shape on one side and serrated on the other./ Ancient Batarang Condition: Very Fine 83.41 gr 56.70 mm Former Ares
Nice @bcuda ! Here is one of my Made in Spain RR Anon AE Semis 211-207 BCE Saturn S Prow ROMA Sear 766 Craw 56-3 Spain Punic War
By the way, I recieved both dazzling beauties that you'd put up for sale in the last CNG auction last week and man oh man their pictures didn't do them justice! (My wife loves the dolphin, but for me it's all about the stern and stoic look on Melqart/Herakles face) As well, I posted this little half/beauty in a thread of yours or two ago (before my big move to Colorado) and had hypothesized it was Carthaginian: Not only is it, but it appears to be a bit rare! CARTHAGE. Circa 300 BC. AR Three-quarter Shekel(?) (18mm, 2.80 g,). Carthage mint. Wreathed head of Tanit left / Horse standing right, head left; Punic ‘ayin below. MAA 37 variante; CNP 102a; SNG Copenhagen 143. Obverse eroded. Rare, only five in CoinArchives
@Ryro The other one you picked from me up reminds me of a Reese's peanut butter cup. There are a lot of different variations of it but yours is one of the earliest and harder to find heavier ones.
Interesting! I have a bronze like the one in the lower left of the photo as well but always thought it was a piece of something rather than an aes formatum...
@red_spork Thank you for taking the time to attribute my semis. I do not know much about Roman Republic coins at all and I figured it was just one of the many copies of this type of coin that was minted and seems be very common from all over Spain at the time. I am very happy as it seems I got super lucky with this one.
I just got these in the mail yesterday and all of them are much better in hand than the pictures for sure. I went and weighed my palm tree style AES Formatum cause it semed so thick compared to my other one in my collection and it weighed 43.36 grams and I thought wow that is super heavy compared to my other one that is 24.04 grams. Then I went back and looked at this post and saw that @Ryro had one of the same style that weighed 83.41 grams ! So now I will be looking for another one that is as heavy if not heavier than Ryro's , Game on Ryro I got to level up now.
