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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24807068, member: 26430&quot;]Here are this morning&#039;s provenance finds. Five new (to my knowledge) &quot;plate coins&quot; (plus others referenced in the same volume)...</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Two related tips</b>:</p><p>[1] Always check the die-studies! (See also my comment immediately above.)</p><p>[2] Buy coins that are likely to be known to those writing up the die-studies. (Again: same collection as my comment immediately above.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought these bronze coins from Lokris a few years ago. I knew they were from an important collection, that of &quot;BCD&quot; (duplicates from Lokris-Phokis, i.e., not in the main sale of the <i>BCD Lokris-Phokis </i>collection, NAC 55, 8 October 2010 [<a href="https://www.arsclassicacoins.com/catalogues/auction-55/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.arsclassicacoins.com/catalogues/auction-55/" rel="nofollow">full catalog available online</a>], but sold by their partner firm Naville).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1587634[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Jacqueline Morineau Humphris &amp; Diana Delbridge published their book in 2014, <i>The Coinage of the Opountian Lokrians,</i> published by the Royal Numismatic Society (London), and available with many other valuable publications for free download: <a href="https://numismatics.org.uk/society-publications-2/special-publications-and-coin-hoards/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatics.org.uk/society-publications-2/special-publications-and-coin-hoards/" rel="nofollow">https://numismatics.org.uk/society-publications-2/special-publications-and-coin-hoards/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The photographs were taken from plaster casts (rather than the coins directly), so there are some slight differences in appearance:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1587633[/ATTACH]</p><p>(I&#039;m used to comparing cast photos, but this is by far the most recent publication I&#039;ve encountered to use them! They mostly went out of fashion mid-20th cent. But I enjoy old- fashioned when it comes to numis. lit.!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure why it took me until now to check for these coins, but there they are. I found several others described and cited, but not illustrated. For about half the coins there was an additional findspot of which I was unaware. (All of this is especially useful since the seller had lost the collector tags!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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