Too broke for Dattari

Now I think it could be a piggohipporhinobearophant. That die engraver must've been drunk, and/or undertraveled

 

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Actually it kinda looks the the dog across the street from my house. I call him merely "fat dog" (I don't have a clue what his name is).

 

Congrats, Dattari coin winners! @Okidoki, that panther obol is fantastic. I was too broke to try for the nice ones and didn't even win any of the junky or common ones that I did try for. 4-5x starting price for many of them seemed pretty reasonable given the pedigree, but I was astonished at a few that closed at 10x or more of their starting prices.

 

i am broke now

 

I noticed several of the Roman Provincial coins attracted spirited bidding. Not my area, so I drank an extra cup of coffee watching these lots. I was interested in a few RR coins. Unfortunately, the one I thought "surly no one will want this one" and targeted was late in the period. I was wrong. Someone wanted it one bid more than me. Most of the other ones of interest were earlier and I did not bid on them.
What I wanted:

this is a good example of a coin that is normally worse!


I would have paid more than the hammer on this one, but the successful bidder might have also. It closed before the coin above.


What I won was ok, but a step down from the ones above:

M. Plaetorius M.f. Cestianus. Denarius circa 69 BC
Obv - Male head (some say Bonus Eventus) r., with flowing hair; behind, scroll (I am not sure I see a scroll behind his head).
Rev - M·PLAETORI – CEST·EX·S·C Winged caduceus.
Babelon Plaetoria 5.
Sydenham 807.
Crawford 405/5.
19.5mm., 3.83g.
Toned. Few banker's marks on obv. Very Fine
From the E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection

Not a bad consolation prize! I like the bankers marks.