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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientnut, post: 2152703, member: 73212&quot;]K is for Katane:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s95.photobucket.com/user/ancientnut/media/15Katane_zps07defb72.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s95.photobucket.com/user/ancientnut/media/15Katane_zps07defb72.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l155/ancientnut/15Katane_zps07defb72.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Katane, Sicily,AR tetradrachm, c 461-450 BC, 26 mm, 17.31 g, 9h. OBV: River god Amenanos, represented as man-headed bull, crouching right (“the right foreleg bent to indicate that he is &#039;swimming&#039; …The fish under the river god and the lack of exergue line…emphasize the idea of water”, Carmen Arnold-Biucchi: The Randazzo Hoard 1980 and Sicilian Chronology in the Early Fifth Century B.C., ANS, 1990); pine branch above; below, fish right / REV: Nike advancing left, holding tainia in extended right hand; KAT-ANE to left. Mirone 13 (same obverse die); Randazzo hoard, Plate 3, 50 (this coin); HGC 2, 559 (R2, 3-24 known); SNG ANS 1235 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 175 (same dies); Gulbenkian 175; Hunt II 225 (same dies); C. Boehringer, Rekonstruktion des Schatzfundes von Ognina 1923, SNR 57, 1978, plate 30, 75; Jameson 1891 (same dies); Kraay &amp; Hirmer 29; Rizzo pl. IX, 3 (same dies); SGC 766v (£7,500). Among the finest of less than 20 specimens known.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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