If horses could fly... This one does!

I have just ordered Pegasi for €300 including postage, which seems a good price, certainly compared to what it's been fetching recently.

http://www.calciati.org/Numismatics/PegasiBook.html

I emailed the address there and got a reply from an Alessandro Calciati, presumably a relation of the late Romolo Calciati - I will post when it arrives.

ATB,
Aidan.

 

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To update this - my copy of Pegasi/Calciati has just been delivered



The sender, son of the late Romolo Calciati, included a book on his father's art and some catalogues; I will email him now to say they've arrived safely. Postage is slow at the moment, but things have been arriving eventually

ATB,
Aidan.

 

Response I usually reserve for coins - Wow! Envious! I want one!

 

For €270 plus postage (€30 to Ireland), you can order your own

ATB,
Aidan.

 

I just ordered myself a new camera, so for the sake of prudence (and s as not to receive two raised eyebrows from the wife), it's going to have to wait abit. Did just check the EUR exchange rate though.

 

@akeady, just from seeing the outside, that looks like a very impressive book!

I completely understand if you don't have time, but if you're not too busy, is there any chance that you could please look up Pegasi 376 when you have a chance, to see if the description and/or photo actually matches the coin I posted earlier in this thread (see below)? Sometimes, when sellers provide an impressive list of catalogue references, and I have the opportunity to check some of them, they don't actually match the coin I bought, so I'm curious!

Corinth AR Stater. Circa 375-345 BC. Obv: Pegasos flying left, Q below / Rev: Helmeted head of Athena left. Control-symbols behind head: N and Ares standing left holding shield and spear. Pegasi 376; Ravel 1056; BCD Corinth 121; SNG Copenhagen 121. 21mm, 8.46 g., 6h. gVF/VF, Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd. Auction IX 22 March 2015, Lot 168.


Thank you!

 

Hi Donna,

It's nearly Pegasi 376 - the N is not retrograde in Pegasi's book and a quick search didn't show up any match to a retrograde N in the book. Pegasi 376 is described as being of a period 345-307 BC.



I don't have the other references, but maybe an online search will throw up others with retrograde letters.

ATB,
Aidan.

 

Thanks for checking for me. It's certainly close.

 

Yes - and Calciati references Ravel 1056.

ATB,
Aidan.

 

These are among the most common Greek coins but some examples have rare beauty in the execution of their classical style. I have only a few Greek coins but I saw this in NYINC this January and had to have it. I learned later that I paid more than double what it went for in a recent Hirsch Auction. I still don't regret it.