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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Prokles, post: 2428660, member: 77681&quot;]I am happy to share with you my two first Etruscan coins (recently won at Baldwin&#039;s last auction).</p><p>It was a long time ago that I was looking for a coin of Populonia (with an interesting pedigree):[ATTACH=full]504291[/ATTACH]</p><p>Etruria, Populonia (c.300-250 BC), Silver 20-Asses, facing head of Metus, hair bound with a diadem, X:X below,<i> rev </i>traces of a legend (‘poplv’) (?), 8.50g (EC Series 37.241 (661) (O1), this coin; Sambon 59.1; Vecchi, SNR 69, 1990, 13 &amp; 53; HN Italy 142). <i>Oval flan, iridescent cabinet tone, very fine</i>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Pedigree: ex Adolphe Menjou collection, Kreisberg &amp; Schulman, New York, 25-26 January 1957, lot 2765/6 (part) </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The second coin was not &#039;premeditated&#039; but rather a last minute decision:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]504292[/ATTACH] </p><p>Etruria, Uncertain mint (c.300-250 BC), Æ Uncia, wheel of six spokes, pellet in field,<i> rev </i>anchor, pellet o n left, Etruscan C on right, 8.12g (Sambon 106a; Vicari, RIN XCIII, 1991, 226a; Vecchi 154; HN Italy 67). <i>Dark green patina, about very fine and rare</i>. </p><p><br /></p><p>Pedigree: ex Naville XII, 18-23 October 1926, lot 62 (part) ex Lockett collection, Greek (Part I), Glendining’s, 25 October 1955, lot 29 (part) £120-160</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to post your etruscan coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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