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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3723629, member: 99456"]Although I happily use digital resources, I do enjoy a nice hardcover book...<i>The Early Cistophoric Coinage</i> by Fred S. Kleiner and Sydney P. Noe, ANS, NY, 1977 arrived in the mail today - a bargain, barely used, for $20 and a complement on the shelf to Metcalf <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-late-republican-cistophorus-from-unknown.333719/#post-3377808" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-late-republican-cistophorus-from-unknown.333719/#post-3377808"><i>Later Republican Cistophori</i></a>. Here's the Early Cistophoric coin that came a few days earlier - not quite as good a bargain.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]998170[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Cista mystica with half-open lid, from which a serpent issues to left; all within ivy wreath</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Two coiled serpents with heads erect; between them an ornamental bow-case with strap at right, containing a strung bow. To left, <font size="5">EΦE</font>, head of leopard right</p><p><b>Size:</b> 12.77g 29mm</p><p><b>Ref:</b> Kleiner & Noe: Series 1:1-a p.41</p><p>[ATTACH=full]998174[/ATTACH]</p><p>The 1 (as in 1-b) indicates the obverse die and the b indicates the reverse dies. I find it somewhat surprising that all known dies are in fairly brief book - but sure enough my coin is a double die match with the coin on Plate XI. Kleiner (<a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan30795#fig-127" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan30795#fig-127" rel="nofollow">also available online</a>) mentions that as of publication there were only 11 known coins from Ephesus Series 1 & 2.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=leopard+&category=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=leopard+&category=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1" rel="nofollow">Leopard</a> in general not a common feature on ancient coins. Here's a closer look at the leopard head, tangled with serpent.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]998190[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Share your cistophori books or coins, coins of Ephesus, leopards or anything else you find entertaining or interesting.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 3723629, member: 99456"]Although I happily use digital resources, I do enjoy a nice hardcover book...[I]The Early Cistophoric Coinage[/I] by Fred S. Kleiner and Sydney P. Noe, ANS, NY, 1977 arrived in the mail today - a bargain, barely used, for $20 and a complement on the shelf to Metcalf [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-late-republican-cistophorus-from-unknown.333719/#post-3377808'][I]Later Republican Cistophori[/I][/URL]. Here's the Early Cistophoric coin that came a few days earlier - not quite as good a bargain. [ATTACH=full]998170[/ATTACH] [B]Obv:[/B] Cista mystica with half-open lid, from which a serpent issues to left; all within ivy wreath [B]Rev:[/B] Two coiled serpents with heads erect; between them an ornamental bow-case with strap at right, containing a strung bow. To left, [SIZE=5]EΦE[/SIZE], head of leopard right [B]Size:[/B] 12.77g 29mm [B]Ref:[/B] Kleiner & Noe: Series 1:1-a p.41 [ATTACH=full]998174[/ATTACH] The 1 (as in 1-b) indicates the obverse die and the b indicates the reverse dies. I find it somewhat surprising that all known dies are in fairly brief book - but sure enough my coin is a double die match with the coin on Plate XI. Kleiner ([URL='http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan30795#fig-127']also available online[/URL]) mentions that as of publication there were only 11 known coins from Ephesus Series 1 & 2. [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=leopard+&category=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1']Leopard[/URL] in general not a common feature on ancient coins. Here's a closer look at the leopard head, tangled with serpent. [ATTACH=full]998190[/ATTACH] [B]Share your cistophori books or coins, coins of Ephesus, leopards or anything else you find entertaining or interesting.[/B][/QUOTE]
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