Hi folks,
Here's another progress report:
Today, I finally finished grinding through all of my
Medieval coins.
And I started "processing" my
Magna Graecia coins. I have 6 boxes of them. I was flying through them. Fortunately, I have the
SNG ANS reference books (all 5 Italy/Sicily volumes). I flew through my
Apulia coins. I was (past tense) making great time. Then, you guessed it, I hit another snag. I came upon yet another mis-attributed coin. And I got bogged down in it.
Several years ago, I purchased a small AE coin from a dealer in Italy/San Marino. He attributed it as
Apulia, Rubi, Athena/Nike, reference
SNG Cop. 677. I compared it to the coins in
SNG ANS, and it was quite a
bit "off".
Athena is wearing an Attic helmet versus a Corinthian helmet. The
reverse figure looks like a male, with the legs visible, versus
Nike in a dress (with no legs visible). And the
inscription was wrong.
Fortunately, I was able to make out a partial
inscription. It looked like: ...
...
(or
)
(?)...
Armed with that scant information, hoping that it was a
Magna Graecia coin, and using my
SNG ANS reference books, I tried to figure out what it was. I literally grinded through every coin in
SNG ANS, coin by coin. I got lucky and found a coin that looked an awful lot like my coin. And the
inscription matched too.
It turns out that it is actually a coin of
Lucania,
Heraclea, Athena/Herakles, reference
SNG ANS 101-110.
The correct
inscription is:
.
Of course, I
had to write up new tags form scratch. And I
had to put it in a different storage box, which involves moving dozens of coins. It's a real hassle, and very time-consuming.
Since I started correcting/updating my tags a few months ago, I can't tell you how many mis-attributed coins I've come across. It is literally in the hundreds.
Meepzorp