Not sure how I missed this thread but soon my drachm below will be joined by a stater of the same magistrate as Doug's - Daim
This coin is in rough shape. I will show it anyway, as it is rare and unusual. Sicily, Selinos. circa 450-440 B.C. Cast AE quincunia(?) 21 mm, 9.7g. Obv: Facing gorgoneion Rev: Krater; five pellets around. Calciati CNS 1 CNG, e-auction 285, August 2012, lot 13 (unsold) Calciati placed it as #1 because he believes it to be the earliest bronze coin of Selinos. Only a few examples are known; the finest I've been able to find was sold by NAC in 2001.
I received this book and I am really enjoying it. The essays and descriptions of each piece really help to understand and appreciate them. The Berlin Painter was really ahead of his time in illustrating emotions and dynamic action. Greek vase books I like are "The Greek Vase Art of the Storyteller" and "Athenian Vase Construction". John
The urn on the left is not well cast, but you can see one handle. Aes Grave Uncia; Umbria, Tuder; 220-200 BC Obv – two handled urn, pellet above, Rev - spearhead, legend (‘tu’) and a pellet in field Haeberlin pl. 81, 27-28 Vecchi 227 Thurlow-Vecchi 168 HN Italy 50
