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Offline Molinari

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Greek Silver Help
« on: February 10, 2017, 02:30:34 pm »
Does anyone recognize this?  I can't quite place it and I don't have the other side (I found it on a thread in a Bulgarian forum).  It looks so darn familiar except for the head of Acheloios popping up from behind!

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Re: Greek Silver Help
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2017, 02:39:56 pm »

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Re: Greek Silver Help
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2017, 05:31:06 pm »
Nick,

I think your enthusiasm for human-headed bulls has led you astray here.  Rather than a facing human head, I see--and it is standard for the series--an ox head in profile.

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Re: Greek Silver Help
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2017, 06:40:07 pm »
Thanks.  That was actually someone else's line drawing over the coin but it looked convincing..  But you're right, not a man-faced bull (the one above) but a regular bull, as Pekka's post shows.


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Re: Greek Silver Help
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2017, 11:55:05 pm »
I wish I could say that I have never seen what I expect instead of what is there, but I would be a liar if I did.  I have done that more times than I can count, particularly when trying to figure out the host type of overstrikes.  Poorly preserved--or in this case poorly reproduced--coins are like Rorschach tests.   

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Re: Greek Silver Help
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2017, 09:28:43 am »
I recognize the picture because I scanned it.  That is the British Museum specimen, from Svoronos' photo plates of Barclay Head's Historia Numorum.

http://snible.org/coins/hn/macedon.html#195

 

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