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SC 285
« on: September 10, 2022, 12:13:55 pm »
Does anyone have an image of SC 285--it is a bronze unit with a butting bull on obverse and anchor on reverse, attributed to Seleukos I Nikator.  Preferably one I can publish! HGC 9, 90.

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Re: SC 285
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2022, 12:40:31 pm »
Does anyone have an image of SC 285--it is a bronze unit with a butting bull on obverse and anchor on reverse, attributed to Seleukos I Nikator.  Preferably one I can publish! HGC 9, 90.

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I'm in touch now with one of the author's of SC so I should have this one soon!

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Re: SC 285
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2022, 06:50:37 am »
That Hoover's HGC 9 #90 doesn't have a photo of the coin isn't a shock.  However, that Seleucid Coins draws a blank (on the photo) is a surprise.  There is no photo for SC 285 on SCO or in their print hardcopy.  And I'm not finding any reference to Newell, anything in SNG Spaer, or anything on acsearch.info. Another surprise.  That's some kind of rarity.

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Re: SC 285
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2022, 07:10:13 am »
It wasn’t on the ANS database of Seleukid coins either! However, I was able to find SC 284 in Brian Kritt’s  2015 book New Discoveries.  He reproduces a photo from P. Bernard’s 1985 reports on Ai Khanoum. Here it is attached.  What interests me is that this mint used both regular bull and man-faced bull iconography, and that changeover is found at other mints.

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Re: SC 285
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2022, 07:11:47 am »
The difference between 284 and 285 is that 284 is anepigraphic, just like the man-faced bull variety (SC 283a). So 284 turned out to be even better!

 

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