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A bronze AE17 of Neapolis with a man-headed bull on the reverse Coin Type: A bronze AE17 of Neapolis in Campania.
Mint and Date: Neapolis, c. 300-275 BCE
Size and Weight: 17mm, 4.75g
Obverse: (NEOΠOΛITΩN) (off the flan to the left).
Laureate head of Apollo left.
Reverse: Man-headed bull walking right. Bunch of grapes on vine leaf above.
Provenance: aitnacoins (eBay), August 2009
Ref: GCV —; SNG France 966; Historia Numorum Italy 575, 582.
BW Ref: 003 042 143
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