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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 3533620, member: 96898&quot;]To quote from [USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER] &#039;s <a href="http://snible.org/coins/hn/phocis.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snible.org/coins/hn/phocis.html" rel="nofollow">website</a>: &quot;The bull’s head, sometimes bound with a sacrificial fillet, is perhaps symbolical of some special sacrifice in honour of the national eponymous hero, Phokos, to whom there was a temple called the Heroön of the hero Archagetas, where sacrifices were offered daily throughout the year; and, presumably at certain stated times, a great sacrifice on behalf of the whole people, when a prize bull may have been the victim.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]938967[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Phokis, Federal Coinage, triobol, ca. 490–485 BC. Obv: frontal bull&#039;s head. Rev: head of Artemis r. set diagonally in incuse square, Φ-O[-K-I] around. 13mm, 2.63g. Ref: see BCD Lokris–Phokis 189; see Williams 1972, no. 17. Ex Savoca London, 2nd Blue Auction, lot 105.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><b><font size="4">Next: a large reptile</font></b></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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