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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3807329, member: 90666&quot;]series: D.SILANVS, L.PISO FRVGI, C.VIBIVS PANSA, M.CATO, L.TITVRI SABINVS, CN LENTVL (only six series among these 20 coins - each moneyer issued many varieties and denominations)</p><p><br /></p><p>Some notable coins</p><p>- I am sadly so far missing a E.L.P. (ex lege papiria) sestertius. One day...</p><p>- RRC 337/3 is ex Oscar Rinaldi FPL 1 (1943) lot 231 coll. Prof.Claudio Bonacini ex Rodolfo Ratto (24 Feb.1930) lot 711 Valerio Traverso coll. (in the Martini coll. sale). Bonacini was an expert in type design and evidently collected Roman coins as source material; he was active in academia until the 1950s so one wonders what prompted a 1943 collection sale. That sale - a very rare catalogue - is unusual for being profusely illustrated on high quality photographic paper (one wonders such material wasn&#039;t rationed or kept for other purposes such as aerial photo reconnaissance).</p><p>- RRC 340/1 head left is exceptionally rare, 4 known examples this type, 10 known of all head left types. A &quot;private collection&quot; example from this die pair - this coin - is cited by Roberto Russo in his writeup to NAC54 (24 Mar.2010) lot 200. Luckily the write up wasn&#039;t included in NAC 63 and the coin was relatively affordable.</p><p>- RRC 340/1 with anchor symbol is from evidently widely admired dies which match (both sides) Signorelli 198, Mayr-Harting 28, Haeberlin 1171, Rashleigh 361D, Nicolas 303 and Eton college 124.</p><p>- RRC 340/6a quadrans has Apollo rather than Hercules as obverse! Extremely rare. Should I have it cleaned?</p><p>- RRC 342/1/2, the Pan/Silenus denarius types were both acquired from an English dealer, Mike Vosper. Both very rare and I was delighted to be able to find them at retail at affordable prices</p><p>- RRC 343/2b quinarius - note its exceptionally fine style compared with almost all known coins of this issue</p><p>- RRC 344/7 L.TITVR (retrograde) Apollo head quadrans. This is a very great rarity, but is the second example of the type I owned! The first I bought in NAC63 RBW collection. About a year later I noticed my coin in Bahrfeldt Nachtraege vol.1 1897, saying it was in the Pesaro museum. After a lot of research I concluded that my coin was the Pesaro museum example cited by Crawford in RRC. Of course I arranged to have the coin returned to its valid home in the museum in Italy, via the Italian police (with help from the vendor I had acquired it from) - it turned out there had been a robbery in the 1980s where this coin was stolen (RBW had bought it retail about a decade later). On the day I was to return the coin, it was raining in London when I was walking into the city via my usual route across Lambeth bridge. I discovered to my horror on arriving at my destination that the coin was no longer with me and recalled looking at it at some point in the journey. I backtracked to that point - still raining - and spent two hours painstakingly examining every inch of pavement for a mile or so, before spotting a plastic flip containing this small bronze on the ground on the southern end of Lambeth bridge. It seems the coin didn&#039;t want to go back! But back it went. There is a lovely coda to this story that happened about a year later. So far as RBW knew this was the only example of this type in his collection, and I had been through RBWs collection and never saw another. But a year later, among the RBW duplicates, another example popped up for sale; when I spotted it and knew I wanted it, I explained what had happened and was kindly gifted this very rare coin for the one I had given back!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1015769[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1015770[/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/48968395333/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48968395333/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48968395333/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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