1st Coin o de year...1st Authentic Man Faced Bull...

Excellent coin! You might be interested in my book on these types:

http://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeo...asp?id={630D98AF-05CE-4C17-B530-6CD7DF4DA048}

preview here:

https://www.academia.edu/12178427/Π...Origin_and_Identity_Oxford_Archaeopress_2016_

I also have a new essay in the pipeline that argues the winged figure is actually Parthenope-Nike, but it will be a while before it sees print.

my favorite MFB:





SICILY, The Sileraians (Sileraioi), 6.86g, ca 357-336 BC. Æ Tetras over AE Litra. OBV: Forepart of Acheloios Silaros Himera as a man-faced bull to right, SILERAIWN retrograde before, above, and behind, linear border. REV: Naked Leukaspis charging right with spear & shield. Calciati III S. 301 Em. 2/9; Campana 2; Moretti 417; Castrizio I, 2/1; MSP I, 56 (this coin illustrated); R. Cantilena, "A proposito dei Tyrrhenoi e dei Sileraioi," in Nomismata: studi di numismatica offerti ad Aldina Cutroni Tusa per il suo novantatreesimo compleanno (2016), Fig. 3 (this coin illustrated).

and a marzipan Acheloios for fun:

 

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Only on silver. On clearer examples you can see the laurel wreath.

 

They are addictive - my favorite


EMPORION (Ampurias, Gerona). (Ar. 0.75g / 12mm). 5th century BC (ca.). Guadán 4; Am orós 4 ACIP 2.

Anv: Protome of bearded androcephalic bull left.

Rev: Geometrical incuse countermark.