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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2884304, member: 19463&quot;]Since this thread is only a week old, I&#039;ll tack on my only Greek purchase from today&#039;s Richmond coin show.&nbsp; My favorite dealer missed this show due to illness and my second favorite does not do Greek coins.&nbsp; I did him a favor and took this AE12 off his hands so he would not have any Greek coins bothering him.&nbsp; It came to him as part of a package deal.&nbsp; He is a bit unusual in collecting Roman and medieval so I ask him why.&nbsp; He said when he first started, he could not afford Greek coins so never learned them.&nbsp; I do recall when I first started we saw few Greek bronzes and small silvers but many tetradrachms that I could not afford then or now.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Gela, Sicily, AE12 onkia, 420-405 BC, Bull / River god having a bad hair day.&nbsp; The reverse is off center enough to show the flan curled around the die punch making it a technical coin for my specialty collection but I really liked the style and die work on such a small bronze.&nbsp; Does anyone have an opinion on the significance of the leaf on the obverse or the grain on the reverse?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]691825[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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