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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3803594, member: 90666&quot;]series: M.CIPI, C.FONT, P.NERVA, L.PHILIPPVS, T.DEIDI, L.TORQVA, CN.BLASIO, L.CAESI, L.MEMMI, L.VALERI FLACC, M.HERENNI, L.CORNELI SISENA, L.SCIP ASIAG, L.MEMMI GAL</p><p><br /></p><p>some notable coins:</p><p>- RRC 289/5 Cipius uncia, a very rare type, has a rudder as main reverse type instead of a prow, matching the rudder under the horses on the denarius</p><p>- RRC 290/1 is a very rare Fonteius as in superb condition and a beautiful dark green patina. This type has an anchor before prow</p><p>- RRC 292/1 with voting scene has a ticket written as gens SILIA - this indicates the writer was following Cohen (1857) rather than Babelon (1886) classification</p><p>- RRC 294/1 Didius with gladiators is ex Pierre Egbers, a venerable elderly French collector who collected mainly in 1930s to 1950s; he bought this coin from Oscar Ravel (who wrote of the Corinthian staters) off a fixed price list in 1948 - I have a copy of the sales receipt written by Oscar Ravel</p><p>- RRC 296/2 Cn. Blasio as - just wanted to draw attention to its splendid hard emerald dark green patina</p><p>- RRC 308 Herrenius semis is a great rarity, missing from essentially all collections of Roman Republican bronzes</p><p>- RRC 311, L.Scipio Asiagenus, is another Egbers coin, bought by him off Alfred Page, Paris (19 June 1933) lot 559 ex Parisian Amateur coll.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1015212[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1015214[/ATTACH] </p><p>Details of the coin types and their provenances are listed below the Flickr image here:</p><p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48962945513/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48962945513/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48962945513/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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