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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andrew McCabe, post: 3818093, member: 90666&quot;]series: BRVTVS, SVLLA + RVFVS , MESSAL, L.VINICI, CALDVS, SER SVLP, MARCELLVS, CAESAR,&nbsp; COPONIVS + SICINIVS, L.LENTVLVS, MAGN, HOSTLIVS</p><p><br /></p><p>This tray covers the start of Imperatorial coinage around 50 BC with issues of Julius Caesar under his own name and the Hostilius Saserna series clearly celebrating Caesar, and initial issues of Pompey the Great under his own name and that of the elected magistrates in 49 BC; also in this tray are a number of generally rare issues of the late 50s BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>some notable coins:</p><p>- RRC 435/1 MESSALA F. PATRE COS is the most blatantly nepotistic coin type in the entire Roman Republican series: &quot;my dad is the consul&quot;. Very rare too</p><p>- RRC 433/2 Brutus and Ahala has splendid portraits of the first consul of Rome 509 BC and Gaius Servilius Ahala, magister equitum in 389 BC. The series comes in a range of portrait qualities - the better ones have crows feet around Brutus&#039; eyes. the adjacent coin has an excellent portrait of Sulla.</p><p>- RRC 440/1 Sicinius is ex Santamaria Signorelli collection 1952</p><p>- RRC 446/1 Pompey the Great with Piso is ex Vinchon 1971; a later provenance is more interesting - Bernhard Terletzki, a German born 1932 from Wartenburg, East Prussia, now Barczewo, Poland, whose population was expelled to Schleswig-Hollstein in 1945; the collector will have had a no doubt traumatic early life.</p><p>- RRC 448/2 the supposed portrait type of Vercingetorix has an unusually excellent reverse</p><p>- RRC 446 Numa Pompilius struck by Varro for Pompey is in exceptional style on large flan with beautiful dolphin, eagle and sceptre reverse</p><p>- RRC 438 Sulpicia has one of the most complex reverses on a Republican coin type. To be honest, its complexity reminds me of the ugliest US state quarters <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie92" alt=":stop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> none of which have any artistic merit but the there&#039;s a lot to look at on this well struck coin</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1016901[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1016902[/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/48986507727/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48986507727/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahala_rome/48986507727/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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