Marcus Aurelius Caesar Silver Denarius, Logging Images Here For History

That's a lovely example of the type! Great detail!
Really nice old cabinet toning, any ideas on the hand written tag?

Well I know nothing outright about the pen and ink tag past the British auction house on the main flip. They don't have an online archive back to their Lockdales auction 75. I now find myself thinking about the secespita knife to the left. That is so detailed it seems to be showing me one piece of metal not an attached handle? Below a man from a site on blade workings has a museum photo. But the way this chopper of a knife is made in the one we see in that coin it seems to be a current design for a cooking chopper. You have to wonder if this set of instruments was all designed together for the priests and sadly if they were originally for humans and not just animals in the early BC years of Rome. Like did they borrow the whole set from an earlier civilization etc.

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Maybe I have watched too many episodes of forged in fire on cable tv....

Thomas Merton said once that you can't own anything in this world. You can keep it from others for a while or you can destroy it so no one else can get it ever, but you can't own anything. I first really took that to heart and second, if you just collect knowledge of ancients you get to handle a whole lot more coins if you are OK passing them along. So the catch 22 is if I kept coins I never would have gotten a coin like that or just a few in life. (You won't find that quote from Merton anywhere, we have his library at our university and he recorded 600 hours of his talks in the 1960's to men entering the life as silent monks and they got to talk in that class only. So you get a really neat side of him like why are you guys leaving tools out in the fields to rust or how come you guys go through so many towels? These were on cassette tapes and driving to work I played them for years. Still have the same 97 Taurus so I only have a cassette player so still do from time to time. He only recorded them for the guys in the kitchen making potatoes to listen to something he said so he'd probably hate I quote him from those.)