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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nicholas Molinari, post: 8153793, member: 78411&quot;]Excellent coin!&nbsp; You might be interested in my book on these types:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id=%7B630D98AF-05CE-4C17-B530-6CD7DF4DA048%7D" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id=%7B630D98AF-05CE-4C17-B530-6CD7DF4DA048%7D" rel="nofollow">http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={630D98AF-05CE-4C17-B530-6CD7DF4DA048}</a></p><p><br /></p><p>preview here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/12178427/ΠOTAMIKON_Sinews_of_Acheloios_A_Comprehensive_Catalog_of_the_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Man_Faced_Bull_with_Essays_on_Origin_and_Identity_Oxford_Archaeopress_2016_" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/12178427/ΠOTAMIKON_Sinews_of_Acheloios_A_Comprehensive_Catalog_of_the_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Man_Faced_Bull_with_Essays_on_Origin_and_Identity_Oxford_Archaeopress_2016_" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/12178427/ΠOTAMIKON_Sinews_of_Acheloios_A_Comprehensive_Catalog_of_the_Bronze_Coinage_of_the_Man_Faced_Bull_with_Essays_on_Origin_and_Identity_Oxford_Archaeopress_2016_</a></p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>my favorite MFB:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422543[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>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 &amp; shield. Calciati III S. 301 Em. 2/9; Campana 2; Moretti 417; Castrizio I, 2/1; MSP I, 56 (this coin illustrated); R. Cantilena, &quot;A proposito dei Tyrrhenoi e dei Sileraioi,&quot; in Nomismata: studi di numismatica offerti ad Aldina Cutroni Tusa per il suo novantatreesimo compleanno (2016), Fig. 3 (this coin illustrated).</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b><br /></b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>and a marzipan Acheloios for fun:</b></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>[ATTACH=full]1422544[/ATTACH] </b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b></b></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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