Brennos,
Thank you very much.
Coincidentally, this morning I received exactly the same from the
ANS Library after inquiring of them as to whether they could scan the same for me.
The scan clarifies and confirms an error in
Price’s catalogue/sequence that I
had suspected based on my
work to date.
Price 3419 of which this coin was the only example cited by
Price is really nothing more than another example
Price 3420.
For some reason he misread the
mint control beneath the throne as "Theta"I rather than a OI.
The exact same coin (image below) is now in the British Museum and has been since 2002,
part of the
Hersh Collection bequest, where it is correctly identified as an example of
Price 3420
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1535682&partId=1&searchText=3420&page=1 I
had included this in my
catalogue, but its
provenance to Auctiones 13 Lot 162 and the
type specimen of
Price 3419 was apparently lost by the BM in the
Hersh bequest.
The
corrected provenance now reads
London, BM 2002,0101.781; Hersh Coll.; Auctiones 13 (23 Jun. 1983), lot 162; Price 3419 corr.
Its a
bit of a mystery as to how
Price made this error, as the
mint control is correctly described as OI in the Auctiones 13
auction catalogue entry and there can be little confusion in reading it off the coin itself, plus a further two examples from different dies are in the
ANS collection to which
Price frequently referred in
his typology.
http://numismatics.org/pella/id/price.3420The upshot of this is that the spurious "Theta"I
mint control can now be eliminated from the Berytos
mint control sequence, which makes much more sense in the context of the Berytos
catalogue and die sequence I have assembled.
The draft of the die study paper is now completed and will be advanced to the
ANS for publication in due course.
Once again thank you for the
help.
It proves how invaluable the
Forvm discussion board can be in connecting those with a deep interest in the Greek series.
All the best
N.
