If yes, you are very well read, and a Roman scholar. If, like me, you haven’t, you are about to be educated. It’s the stern decoration of a Roman ship. It’s not a word I’ve ever had a use for before, and, apart from using it as a subject for a post, I have little use for it now.

It appears on the design of a coin of the Roman Republic that is featured on the Facebook page of the Numismatic Society of Nottinghamshire, which is where I saw it. This is the reason that collecting coins, or indeed anything, can be so educational.  If you have nothing better to do, go and have a look. If you can, push a few “Like” buttons – it encourages Steve who does all the work loading things up. He also writes the bits on ancient coins while I try my best to bring the quality threshold down with 300 word pieces on plastic bus tokens, aluminium medallions and things from the junk box.

Admiral Vernon and Commodore Brown. See previous post.

The next talk is Olympic coins – it’s given by one of our more polished speakers, so there will be no equipment failure this time. We have some good speakers this season, including someone talking about the legendary Fishpool Hoard in November. I’m not sure if I will be at that or not as Julia would like to move before the cold weather starts.

Meanwhile, I have just had an email from the final editor of the month. One tanka and one tanka prose accepted. So that’s four submissions sent and four acceptances. I will not lie, it feels good. However, it could be better. There is always the chance of having two accepted, as I have sometimes done, so there is still room for improvement.

My Orange Parker Pen