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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1749079, member: 19463&quot;]I looked this one up in Banti and was a bit confused.&nbsp; The coin matches Banti Papia 1/149.&nbsp; Banti is only partly bilingual and the minor type descriptions are in Italian only.&nbsp; The reverse figure here is called Volpe (fox).&nbsp;&nbsp; It is one of two varieties under La natura: Rettili e anfibi (Nature: Reptiles and Anphibians).&nbsp; The other (Banti 1/150) is Biscia/Rana (non-poisonous snake/frog) so both fit the heading. 1/149 is Serpe (viper) so the coin made this group based on the obverse symbol.&nbsp; Looking at the reverse, I could see a crocodile rather than a fox and that reading would be consistent with the rettili heading but looks nothing like the critter Banti calls coccodrillo (which shares a coin with a hippo in the &#039;game animals&#039; section).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Banti has photos of 188 coins of this type.&nbsp; There are some neat ones!&nbsp; I guess the series taxed the abilities of the engravers to come up with new types since there is one CCXLVI (246).&nbsp;&nbsp; I do not have a coin of this series but now I know there are some more interesting than others, I&#039;ll have to seek out a good one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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