I found this coin appealing, even with the missing head of Ceres on the reverse. Thanks to the Schaefer die studies, I can ID the device to left with some certainty. M. Volteius M.f., 75 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint Obv: Head of Bacchus or Liber right, wearing ivy wreath Rev: Ceres, standing in chariot, holding lighted torches, driving biga of snakes right; pileus to left Ref: Crawford 385/3; Sydenham 776; Volteia 3 Note: More on this coin here With the help of the Schaefer die study I was able to reconstruct the ambiguous device ("pileus") of my reverse die (#19) in Shaefer:
@Sulla80 THANK YOU! wow, i went to the die study link and i think my coin itself was included in the study - that's really exciting! Thank you for the link! Your coin is really cool and i'm glad you were able to find and piece together the device marking on it.
Thanks and congrats on the provenance find! My main motivation for posting is exactly this - in hopes that it will be useful (or at least entertaining) to others.
