Top 10 of 2021

Same here. The exception is I get $2 bills when my bank has some and tip drive through workers and folks who buss our table at restaurants.

 

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All great coins @akeady

My favorites:
#5: a perfect Cornelia Denarius
#6: The Valeria denarius, even off center it is beautiful
#8: the Fonteia denarius with a complete galley, very hard to find

Your 2021 coins are impressive. Congrats!!

 

These coins are wonderful, Aidan. I guess I must be in tune with popular tastes, because I voted for #'s 2, 5, and 8, and it turns out that they're the three with the most votes. Not surprisingly, perhaps, because they're beautiful. I've long wanted a Fonteius galley with the jugate profiles of the Dioscuri -- I have the one with Janiform heads -- but they're hard to find in a condition as nice as yours, with the "face" of the galley on the reverse staring at you the way it does.

Plus an honorable mention to the 1928 Irish proof set. The sow and the bull especially remind me of ancient prototypes.

 

I voted for three superb RR denarii: 5. Cornelia , 8. Fonteia and 2. Fabia. Congratulations !

 

Thanks!

ATB,
Aidan.

 

Thanks, Donna.

I was lucky with the Fonteia - I was reeling from the asking price at one table for a Sulla denarius and turned to browse at Baldwin's table and saw this for £275, so bought it immediately.

Among the materials sent to entrants of the coinage design competition in 1926 (or '27?) was a photo' of a coin of Thurium with a bull, so they were starting with classical ideas. The initial design had a more spirited bull, so Metcalfe was asked to be a bit more conservative with the final design, to better represent Irish livestock.

Augustus denarius (RIC187a) rather than Thurium, but my favourite Roman bull:


This triobol is the only Thurium bull I have:


Roll on 2022.

ATB,
Aidan.

 

Nice top "10" Aidan

My favorites are 1/2/5! Thanks for sharing. Wish you a great 2022!
John

 

Thanks, John - same to for 2022!

ATB,
Aidan.

 

Quite a diverse year! My faves mirror other posters:

The Syracuse tet for the type and pedigree,
The Regulus for its eye appeal and pedigree,
The Lentulus Apollo/Jupiter for its beauty,
The Fonteius because it's a type I've wanted for a while,
The Segesta didrachm because who doesn't want one?

Congrats on the fine year .