This coin comes a very short distance from being spectacular. The problem is the doublestriking that messed up the legends. All of these have the city name on the reverse (of the Neapolitans) but relatively in my recollection few have obverse legend. Look at this gem from acsearch where the small figure of Artemis is matched by her name under the head on obverse. http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1264587 Yours has a bunch of grapes but I'm not certain on the word. If I were you I would figure that out before I sold the coin since it could add interest. I believe it might be Dioganoys (a magistrate?) like the one below: http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=400333 I posted two coins above. One sold for 2100 Euros while the other was $160. Condition is the name of the game, yes! Yours is in the middle somewhere. That expensive one is the nicest coin of the type I have seen and should sell for two or three times the price of the second best of this series famous for centering problems. At least yours is off center the right way so the head didn't lose a nose. Nice pick up!
Holy Schmokes, LostDutchman => that is a fantastic example of a very cool coin-type (sweet score) I have a humble example to add to your thread ... my baby is off flan, so I'm missing quite a bit of Nike crowning, above
Just to bring the average quality of the thread down a notch or two, here's my diseased-looking AE. CAMPANIA, Neapolis Circa 270 - 250 BC AE Litra 6.05g, 20.3m Sear 557; HN Italy 589. O: NEOΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ, laureate head of Apollo left, E (?) behind. R: Man-faced bull walking right, head facing, crowned by Nike flying right above; beneath bull, IΣ.
Ooooooowwww, sweet coin!! => man, I didn't know that there was an AE version?!!! (top o' the wish-list, my end-of-the-alphabet friend!!)
Try and get one that doesn't make you feel all itchy just looking at it! Mine is like the Baron Harkonnen of coins.
