I bought this little Termessos bronze in last Sunday's Zeus auction. I don't normally buy off-centre coins but I made an exception in this case because I've never seen this type before. acsearch records only one similar coin and I couldn't find it in any of my (admittedly limited) reference works. The auction reference was 'Cf BMC Pisidia 268, 1' - that is a humped bull butting left, not a leaping bull as here. I would be grateful to know if anyone could provide an attribution for this coin.
Here it is on acsearch. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5062600 It references BMC Pisidia 268, 1 also but BMC's pic's do not have the crescent.
Thanks, ancientone, I appreciate your help. The BMC reference is indeed a different coin - in addition to there being no crescent it is a standing rather than a leaping bull. As well as it not being in BMC I can't find the coin I bought in Wildwinds or Asia Minor Coins or in any of my other reference works so it does look like it is very rare.
This is Imhoof KM 2 ("Kleinasiatische Münzen") with the "full" bull (not just the forepart) and a crescent above. I will add this to wildwinds. Ian, please feel free to send me some good images of the other Termessos coin you have, which you say is not on wildwinds. I have added quite a few Termessos coins during the past week, because a regular wildwinds user just bought a batch of coins from there.
Savoca used "Cf." before the BMC reference; which merely means to compare with. Sorry, I just noticed that the original post was from May.
