Ancients => Man, that's Bull!!

I'll post to the Potamikon thread with the details and final price. Brexit is saving us quite a bit, which is nice.

 

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What's the weight?

 

DA BULLS!


Cimmerian Bosporos, Pantikapaion
AE17, 4.6g, 6h; c. 325-310 BC.
Obv.: Head of Satyr left.
Rev.: Π-A-N; Head of bull left.


Octavian, 27 BC - AD 14
AE32, 16g, 6h; Colonia Celsa.
Obv.: II VIR COL V I CELSA; bare head of Octavian right.
Rev.: Bull right; L.POMPE.BVCCO above, L.CORNE.FRONT (moneyers).
Reference: RPC 269; Burgos 611.

Ya, none have man faces or man heads but I'll get one some day!

 

Speaking of Red Bull

 

Where are the "WINGS"??? (Or, did you get sued too.)

 

It is a small one:
2.86 g
16 mm

 

Thanks. That's what I figured. These got really small toward the end.The types with forepart of MFB even smaller (as a fractional unit), like this one weighing in at 1.29g.

This was one of my first MFBs and I still really like it, despite its crudeness.

 

Wow, awesome participation points for all of you coiners!! (thanks)

=> Please keep dem bull-coins comin'

 

Geesh, I almost forgot about my man-faced bull over-strike!!

Anonymous. Overstruck Æ Triens
Canusium mint
206-195 BC
Diameter: 20 mm
Weight: 5.88 grams
Obverse: Helmeted head of Minerva right; four pellets above
Reverse: Prow right; [CA] to right, four pellets below
Reference: Crawford 100/3; Sydenham 309c; RBW 450
Other: 12h … VF, brown patina.

Overstruck on a “Zeus/man-headed bull” issue of Oiniadai, Akarnania (cf. BCD Akarnania 345-8)

From the RBW Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (20 August 1986), lot 117





... this is the host coin-type (Oiniadai, Akarnania)

 

@stevex6, man you're plain crazy, I love that : the only guy around here responding to himself ten times at the begining of a thread fearing noone would notice he wrote something funny, entertaining and showing awesome coins !!!

Ain't got no MFB but just actual bulls. Shall I show them off ?
Yes !


Syracuse Agathokles 317-289 BC
SYPAKOSYWN. Head of Kore left
Bull butting left, two dolphins and linked VA in field
6.0 gr, 20 mm
Ref : Sear #1195 va



Pantikapaion, AE18
Head of Pan left
Hed and neck of bull left TT A N in field
4.29 gr, 18 mm
Ref : Sear #1699 v, MacDonald 67, SNG BM Black Sea 890-3, SNG Cop. 32



L. Thorius Balbus, Denarius Rome mint, 105 BC
Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing a goat's skin, ISMR behind
Bull charging right, L above (control letter), L. THORIVS BALBVS in two lines at exergue
3.93 gr
Ref : RCV # 192, RSC, Thoria # 1



Augustus, Denarius struck in Lyon c.12 BC
AUGUSTUS DIVI F, Bare head of Augustus right
IMP X, Bull butting right
3.77 gr
Ref : RCV #1610, Cohen #137



Julian II, AE 1 struck in Antioch, 3 rd officina
D N FL CL IVLI ANVS P F AVG, Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Julianus right
SECURITAS REIPUB, Bull to right, two stars above. ANT gamma between two branches at exergue
8.73 gr
Ref : Cohen #38, RC #4072, LRBC #2641

Q

 

Gela


Pantikapaion


Syracuse


L. THORIUS BALBUS


Castulo


AUGUSTUS

 

HADRIAN


JULIAN II

 

That Julian is a real gem!

 

Agreed! I'm veryry jealous.

 

Ummm, so we're on bulls now, eh?

 

=> MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (*snort*)

 

Some mighty interesting coins here!

I forgot about another MFB in my stable.


AKARNANIA, Federal Coinage (Akarnanian Confederacy)
3rd century BCE
Æ (20mm, 6.38 g, 10h)
Obv: laureate head of Zeus right; API below
Rev: head of river-god Achelӧos left; trident head above, monogram to left. Ref: BCD Akarnania 32; HGC 4, 736
ex Alexandre Carathéodory Pasha (1833-1906)

 

Here's a bull, cheerfully prancing along with Isadora Duncan and her scarf on his back:

 

Bulls:


HUNS Nezak Huns - Spalapati Deva AR Jital 750-850 CE Horseman-Bull Obv-Rev Tye 5


Thrace Byzantion AR Half-Siglos bull-dolphin-incuse 340-320 BC


RR AE 28mm 19-2g Quadrans - Sicily mint 214-212 BCE Hercules-boar headress - Bull - OBV-REV ex RBW Craw 72-7


RI Hostillian AE 27 - 251 CE Viminacium mint Bare head-Moesia bull-lion Obv-Rev Moushmov 54


RI Aemilianus 253 CE AE24 Viminacium mint Moesia Bull-Lion - Damnatio Memoriae


RR Valerius Acisculus 45 BCE Apollo star Europa bull S 469 Cr 474-1

 

Cool Bulls:


Sicily Syracuse 317-289 BC AE 23 Hemilitron Agathokles Kore Bull Dolphin


Sicily Messana Mamertini 288-278 BCE AE 28 16-8g Ares - Bull Butting


My scarce (RARE) Bull butting RIGHT...
Sicily Syracuse Hieron II 275-269 BC AE 15 Persephone Bull RIGHT


LEFT butting Bull I captured from the Taurus @TIF
Sicily Syracuse Hieron II 275-269 BC AE 22 Persephone Bull LEFT


Sicily Syracuse Hieron II compare Butting Bulls Right and Left
A BULLFIGHT!!! Ole! Toro, Ole!