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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsimonel, post: 7555839, member: 82549&quot;]Here&#039;s another coin that I received in the lot of coins from the William Stancomb Collection that I won in a recent Roma auction:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1303203[/ATTACH]</p><p>MOESIA, Istros Æ 15mm.</p><p>Late 4th- early 3rd centuries BC.</p><p>Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right</p><p>Rev: ΙΣΤΡΙΗ above sea-eagle on dolphin left, H to right.</p><p>SNG Stancomb 156 (this coin, Fedesti Hoard);</p><p>HGC 3.2, 1814.</p><p>3.11g, 15mm, 6h.</p><p><br /></p><p>Auction notes:</p><p><i>&quot;This coin published in <a href="http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org/" rel="nofollow">Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum</a>, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000); </i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ID #SNGuk_1100_0156]</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&nbsp;Acquired from a 1930s collection; Ex Fedesti Hoard.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I poked around on the internet and found that the Fedesti hoard was a pot of over 200 bronze coins from Istrus discovered in Vaslui, Romania in either 1976 or 1984. (A <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=73694.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=73694.0" rel="nofollow">Discussion</a> on <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php" rel="nofollow">Coin Forum</a> gives both dates.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I also discovered that [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER] has a similar coin that he wrote about in a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/way-outside-of-my-collecting-pattern-but.366297/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/way-outside-of-my-collecting-pattern-but.366297/">CT Post</a> last September. His coin is in much better shape than mine, but I&#039;m still pleased to add this modest example my collection: it&#039;s my first plate coin and my first documented hoard coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>We have recently had threads asking collectors to show their dolphin coins and their coins featuring eagles. Instead, how about I invite anyone with a coin from the Stancomb Collection and/or the Fedesti Hoard to post their specimens?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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