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July 13

Bubble-end serifs in ancient coins

I see this dotty round-end serif style in bronzes and other things sometimes, does that follow use of a particular tool? To me it looks a bit soldering gun-ish.

Temerarius (talk) 17:42, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm by no means familiar with ancient coinage, but for this tetradrachm, Ancient Greek coinage#Minting mentions hammered coinage made through the use of coin dies. I imagine the blobbiness would come from the coin die itself being carved rather deeply, for an example see File:Reverse Die for a Tetradrachm of Demetrios I.jpg. GalacticShoe (talk) 17:52, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just looking at it, it seems like they may have used a tool which leaves a circular hole to define the ends of some of the strokes, and then carved between these circles... AnonMoos (talk) 19:30, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mrs Rattenbury's sons

Alma Rattenbury was a song-writer, adulteress, and accused murderer. She had two sons, Christopher (b. 1921), by her second husband Compton Packenham, and John (b. 1928), by her third and last husband Francis Rattenbury. She and her lover George Percy Stoner (b. 1916) were tried for the murder of Francis. he was found guilty, she was acquitted. Stoner was sentenced to death, but his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, and he was released after seven years. She committed suicide by stabbing herself on the banks of the Hampshire Avon, less than a week after her acquittal. My question is what happened to her sons, who would have been about 14 and 7 at the time of her death. Thank you, DuncanHill (talk) 22:28, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Obituary here [1]. 2A00:23A8:1:D801:CDA3:36B8:54AE:E434 (talk) 17:39, 14 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]