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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4487913, member: 110350&quot;]A beautiful coin, [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER]. Here&#039;s my Corinth stater.&nbsp; Like you, I admired that coin-type for a long time as one of the most beautiful examples of ancient Greek coinage, and it was the third ancient Greek coin I ever bought.&nbsp; (I still only have six!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Corinth AR Stater. Circa 375-345 BC. Obv: Pegasos flying left, Q below / Rev: Helmeted head of Athena left. Control-symbols behind head: N and Ares standing left holding shield and spear. Pegasi 376; Ravel 1056; BCD Corinth 121; SNG Copenhagen 121.&nbsp; 21mm, 8.46 g., 6h.&nbsp; gVF/VF, <i>Ex</i> <i>Roma Numismatics Ltd. Auction IX&nbsp; 22 March 2015, Lot 168</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1113813[/ATTACH]</p><p>I happen to think it&#039;s a beautiful example, and I think that Roma was being very strict in grading it as only a gVF/VF -- the first of those grades presumably referring to the obverse (which is actually the Pegasos despite the order of the seller&#039;s images). and the second referring to the reverse (the head of Athena).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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