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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nicholas Molinari, post: 2479017, member: 78411&quot;]That&#039;s a great looking man-faced bull, in this case representing Acheloios Savo, Savo being the local river highly venerated by the people of Cales for a very long time.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the more important contributions of Potamikon is a re-dating of some types from Cales, including yours.&nbsp; Rutter (and maybe Crawford, too) clumped these together in the 265-240 range but that&#039;s very doubtful.&nbsp; We re-date the coinage into three phases, and Phase I, during which your coin was minted, dates 317-280 BC, corresponding to Taliercio&#039;s Phase II for Neapolitan coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are fifteen different varieties with sixteen-ray star above the MFB.&nbsp; I think I see an A, in which case it would be Sambon 957; Santangelo 691-2; MSP I, 80, but a more general attribution would be MSP I, 80-95 var.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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