Potamikon due this month

WOW, gorgeous coin. I would have had a VERY difficult time letting that one go...

 

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Looking through my unattributed Greek bronzes I found this coin from Neapolis. It is actually a beautiful and even green color that my photo does not capture well.



I believe it is Potamikon 338 due to the legend ending in Omega N, the "H" in the obverse field, and the weight, which is 5.08 gm. I think I read somewhere how to reference this new work, but I can't remember how right now, maybe Nicholas can help me out.






I found a tiny bronze from Gela that I will work up when I get a chance. What MFB bronzes do you have?

John

 

Sorry for the noob question but how common are man-faced bull coins? I understand if there are certain man-faced bull types more common than others. I am tempted to pick one up if I can find one for cheap.

 

Gela has no bronzes with the man-faced bull except for the countermark stamped on an Akragas under type.

 

From common to extremely rare for the bronzes. The least I've spent is $13, I think, and the most $1900 (so far). But I search day and night for MFBs lol.

 

That's a nice one! I use MSP I, 338, when referring to coins in sections other than their own throughout the catalog.

 

I'm just now sitting down for for a more serious overview of the book, admiring its organization and detail.

Praise for Potamikon is definitely in order! I can't imagine the number of hours it took to prepare, from casual collection to increasingly scholarly research to the actual writing of such a thing. WOW. It will definitely take a long time to read and absorb.

It is a dangerous book though. It's exactly the type of thing that will lead to me spending $$$ on coins I hadn't considered in the past .

 

Thank you, TIF, I'm glad you're enjoying it so far and appreciate the amount of work that went into it. Virtually every word of that text was debated over in half-broken English with my coauthor, and it wasn't always a pleasant conversation.

I don't know how many hours went into it. A lot. Especially when you add in all the readings. We had to have Isler's work professionally translated because we'd both get terrible headaches trying to read the German. I wish I paid closer attention in German class!

So your comments and everyone else's are very much appreciated.

There is a nice unpublished gold denomination in the CNG auction. Good thing it is off center or I'd have to liquidate all my assets to buy it!

 

I have a list of the different errors I've come across that I'll continuously update and post on academia.edu. On my copy I used a little white-out and rewrote with pen because I couldn't stand to look at them. The only serious error involved a footnote in the section on Cales (note 50) that wasn't updated when we renumbered the entire document!

If you notice any such errors (general typos, like "Chaclcolithic"...ugh...don't count) please let me know.

https://www.academia.edu/27911889/Potamikon_Errata

Document will be available soon on the above link.

 

All is good. Great book, it is your 1st publication of it. Mistakes happen. Nothing is EVER perfect, so I learned long ago not to sweat it - no one will die from those mistakes. I admire that a person must hang their guts out there for all to see!

 

The thing that really gets me is the footnote numbers reverting, for some ungodly reason, to regular script rather than superscript. This would happen totally at random in different stages of development, and I'd often go in and manually fix them. But I was always worried that the last time the final final draft was opened to print at the printer, a few of those evil little buggers would revert, and, lo and behold, they did!

 

MFB did it...

 

Revisiting an old thread because the first formal review was just published. If you are interested and have access to an academic library, it is in the journal Ancient West and East (Peeters, 2019), pages 439-441.