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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8214804, member: 110350&quot;]How about this one, since it&#039;s less common than some of my other coins showing a pileus:</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L. Aurelius Cotta*, AR serrate Denarius, 105 BCE, Rome Mint. Obv. Draped bust of Vulcan right, wearing conical cap (pileus) bound with laurel wreath, tongs behind shoulder with * [= XVI; mark of value] above; beneath chin, control mark “D” with single pellet below**; all within myrtle-wreath / Rev. Eagle standing three-quarters right on thunderbolt with wings spread and head left; in exergue, L • COT; laurel-wreath around.*** Crawford 314/1b, RSC I Aurelia 21 (ill.); BMCRR 1296, Sydenham 577, Sear RCV I 191 (ill.). 19 mm., 3.74 g. Purchased from Ken Dorney June 2021; with old coin ticket from 1950s/1960s [with Sydenham number but not Crawford]. [Footnotes omitted.]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/combined-cotta-vulcan-white-background-jpg.1404775/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next, speaking of uncommon, another coin depicting Vulcan. Or Hephaestus.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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