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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8250179, member: 19463&quot;]Somehow those happy to overpay for coins allowed me to win two lots in the recent Ken Dorney auction.&nbsp; Certainly these are not coins that would appeal to most people but they are coins I did not have. </p><p><br /></p><p>First is an AE15 from Arpi in Apulia 325-275 BC showing a rather ordinary Zeus head and what I consider a cute forepart of a not so cute boar.&nbsp; Above is a spearhead. The coin has more wear than some I have seen but has a particularly clear reverse legend ΑΡΠΑ (the larger coins spell out APΠANΩN).&nbsp; This half denomination seems less common than the whole hog reverse double. Other than the piggy, the appeal to me was it being from an Italian city not previously in my accumulation.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453288[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The second coin is really not very nice with strange damage to the reverse that I can not convince myself is &#039;just&#039; damage to the coin.&nbsp; I bid thinking it had deposits but it appears that the &#039;deposits&#039; are solid metal as if someone roughly dug the V out of the reverse messing up some other parts in addition.&nbsp; The reverse legend is mostly missing but was PAX AVG.&nbsp; I only bid on this coin because of Coin Talk and will hold off telling why I wanted the coin.&nbsp; Anyone who has been paying attention to CT for the last month might see the answer but I suspect most will not.&nbsp; Am I wrong?&nbsp; I would appreciate opinions on the Mairat number especially for those who have the plates not included in the online text.</p><p><a href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&amp;safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&amp;type_of_work=Thesis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&amp;safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&amp;type_of_work=Thesis" rel="nofollow">https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&amp;safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&amp;type_of_work=Thesis</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Which is this in the 597-601 range?&nbsp; Dots are hard to see on an imperfect coin. Where does he define b and p?&nbsp; I&#039;m guessing 597???</p><p><a href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&amp;safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&amp;type_of_work=Thesis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&amp;safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&amp;type_of_work=Thesis" rel="nofollow">https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:58eb4e43-a6d5-4e93-adeb-f374b9749a7f/download_file?file_format=pdf&amp;safe_filename=Volume_1.pdf&amp;type_of_work=Thesis</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453291[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Do post your similar coins and Dorney wins.&nbsp; According to tracking info, my package &#039;predicted&#039; to arrive last week finally arrived at my local post office Tuesday morning but rather than delivering it to me, they sent it to a town 60 mile north of me where it was sent back last night.&nbsp; Covid has changed what we do for excitement these days.&nbsp; Who knew watching tracking could be so entertaining?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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