Picked a couple of coins to add to my L collection. That is for Luceria in Northern Apulia and not: Lanuvium where Juno Sospita wore a goat skin headdress or Lupercalia where they ate goat and drank wine at a whipping festival on the ides of February. I have trouble keeping the L towns apart. I picked up the dark toned cast coin previously. The other two are new to me. I bought the light toned cast Herculese / horse coin hoping for a better obverse. Unfortunately, it is worse. The new cast coin is thin at the edge near Herc's nose. Greek Italy. Northern Apulia, Luceria. AE Cast Nummus, c. 217-212 BC. D/ Head of young Herakles right, wearing lion skin. R/ right; above, star; below, L. 64.66 / 55.9 grams 48 / 44 mm Rare Vecchi ICC 344; HN Italy 676; Haeb. p. 187, 1-34, pl. 71, 9-13. Roman Republican, Anonymous. 211-208 BC. AR Victoriatus. Luceria L (second Crawford series). Luceria mint. Obv - Laureate head of Jupiter right, with free-flowing hair; all within bead and reel border Rev - Victory standing right, placing wreath on trophy; L between, ROMA in exergue. Crawford 97/1a Sydenham 121 RSC 36e RBW 394 I am amazed the L Victoriatus was not hurt when the package was run over by a truck (or whatever made the big black mark). Post your L coins -
...fedex is the worse delivery company i have ever dealt with..if that's the way they send it, i don't want it...
I like that big ole hunk of a coin. probably feels like a handful. Imagine carrying around 10 or 20 of those. It boils down to the management. There are too many ears in the chain mail and not enough people that aren't on the GOV payroll.
