Anyone Have 5 Asses?

hahaha! and these are gold(well bronze anyway) too^^ thought you'd like'em

 

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@Alegandron and @gregarious: Kinda gives an insight into the mind set of each.

 

I am still learning the currency dynamics during this period. Roman pre-Denarius coinage was all over the place with Aes, Didrachmae, etc. And, several different issues of Italian coinage were minted. Then the Roman Denarius reform standard began edging out all the local Italian coinage, leaving the Roman standard begining to dominate after 211 BCE.

 

Fantastic thread!! I'm so envious of all of you that have even a few of the type. I'm definitely in the market for an example or two...or three ....

It seems the reverses are always 'blank'??? Is there any 'scholarly' opinion as to why they consistently chose that format???

SUPER HUGE CONGRATS Brian!!! WOW!!

 

Great addition @Alegandron and wonderful writeup. I have nothing to show here, but was glad to learn something

Congrats for showing them
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On the map of Alegandron, there's an island facing Fufluna down. It's Elba where Napoleon had been put in exile after his defeat in Waterloo. BTW..is Fufluna the Etruscan name of Populonia ?
I have no Etruscan coins, I think. So I decided to add something to the write-up.
The Etruscans were known in their own language as Rasena or Rasna. The Greeks called them Tyrsenoi, whereas the Romans called them Tusci or Etrusci.
Among their major deities were Catha (the sun), Tin or Tinia (Jupiter), Maris (Mars), Fufluns (Bacchus or Dionysus).There were also many underworld divinities and demons of frightful aspects, such as Charu (Charon).

 

According to Wikipedia:
"Populonia or Populonia Alta (Etruscan: Pupluna, Pufluna or Fufluna, all pronounced Fufluna; Latin: Populonium, Populonia, or Populonii) today is a frazione of the comune of Piombino (Tuscany, central Italy)....Piombino is an Italian town comune of about 35,000 inhabitants in the province of Livorno (Tuscany). It lies on the border between the Ligurian Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea, in front of Elba Island and at the northern side of Maremma."

Hope this helps.

 

You know, I really do not know WHY they had a BLANK reverse. Sometimes they had a caudices or their lettering for the denomination. But, it was usually very faint. It is one of the features (blank rev.) that makes them rather unique.

 

Sweet coins, all!

This is the best I got:





Erin

 

LOL, what IS that?

 

I thought for sure it was five:





Erin

 

well,not having any coins... i just came here to make an ass joke, but that's been played out.

it's a cool group of coins alegandron, the blank reverse types are interesting indeed....well played sir.

 

ROFL!!!

 

Yeah, I grew up with friends having donkeys. They are a pain in the as compared to the horses I raised!

 

I don't have any of these types, but will look in the future. Great coins and info Alegodron!!

 

Like @Alegandron, I am fascinated with Etruria collection from the pre-denarius days. My collection is rather small, only 4 coins so far.


Etruria, Uncertain Mint
4th-3rd century BC
AR 10 units (c 4 gm)
Reference: SG 269


Uncertain of Etruria
240-225 BC
AE Uncia (struck issue) 9.01gm - 22 mm
Reference: ICC 170b


Etruria or Umbria, Uncertain
3rd century BC.
Æ Aes Grave Sextans 22.23gm - 30Lx21Wx5.5H
Reference: ICC 199


Etruria mint, Anonymous Issue [staff]
211-208 BC
AE Sextans 7.94gm - 22mm
Reference: Crawford 106/8a

 

No Etruscan coinage for me, but I do own one of these:

A Pair of Etruscan Situla Fittings, circa 5th Century B.C. Bronze, 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm) high for the taller. Each depicting Acheloios, winged with fish scale belly, wearing cap, each piece preserving part of the vessel wall. Modern pinholes in reverse for mounting. I own the one on the right of the photo (MSP I, p. 108, Fig. 59a). Ex S. Donati, Lugano 1982; Ex. Christies' Sale 9666, lot 52;.59a-b.

 

Those are beautiful @Nicholas Molinari! Pretty cool owning an artifact depicting the man-faced bull Achelous, the god of all water!

 

@Alegandron, I forgot to mention....I think your Etruscan collection is AWESOME!!!