I’m frustrated I couldn’t find a picture of the coin type discussed by Psoma in this chapter.
Spearheads
All of the below nonsense is me trying to get my eye into spearheads to decide what I think (again) about the amphora/spearhead currency bar. I’m worried about the notches in the blade of Vecchi 20, one in a private collection, one in Copenhagen. If you know of any other notched spearheads from the ancient Mediterranean. I so far have located none and that is concerning…
Details of specimens of RRC 83/2:
(same specimen different sale)
RRC 83/1a:
RRC 88/4
HN Italy 379
HN Italy 45:
Lesbos, 4th Cent. (another specimen)
Awl and Foot vs. Spearhead and Jawbone
I’m interested in Papius’ Pairs. This is one of my favorites.
This coin type rather complicates the ‘deformed foot’ explanation (cf. another specimen).
Cf.
Roman Republican Sicily! Panormus? (a different specimen)
Mylasa, Caria. Note form of spearhead on obverse:
Falcata at Emerita
OCRE entries. Documentation of my earlier obsession with falcatae.
Inauspicious Business Names
Someone should have told Gerald Cotten that Quadriga was not the best thing to name his currency… Or maybe, he’s laughing at all his customers from the great beyond …
Faces of Abacaenum
I’m really really into the aesthetics of the coins of Abacaenum. The frontal to 3/4 profile faces are so beautiful and varied!
Is it Sol? Helios? Apollo as sun god? Or some one else completely different. The catalogues like to identify it as female (often a nymph). That’s not what I see.
I’m also concerned that the sow and piglet might not include a sow. Where are the teats?
Female Boar
RRC 121/2. Gender is pretty clear. And that is once fierce looking creature. Reminds me of RRC 388.
Has me wondering if I was too quick to think it was non-sense that the pre-Marian standards could have included a female boar, and thus been associated with Demeter…
