No Bull, I Won a Plate Coin!

Exceptionnal coin @David Atherton

Since I've shown my plate coins many times lately, let me show a bull I've only shown two dozens times



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Thank you for posting the Augustan proto-type that inspired the Flavian bull.
Wonderful coin!

 

Now you have me wondering if that wonderful Augustus might have been inspired by an even earlier prototype.

Sicily, Syracuse, Time of Hieron II, circa 274-269/65 BC, AE (19mm, 4.47g)
Obv: Wreathed head of Persephone left; ΣYRAKOΣIΩN before, grape bunch behind
Rev: Bull charging left; I in exergue

 

I have several plate coins but my favourite is a SNG Spencer-Churchill coin (#62) wich is also the cover coin of the catalogue Leu 6 1973, the sale of the famous Virzi collection.

Sicily. Syracuse. Timoleon and the Third Democracy, 344-317 BC. Dilitron (Bronze, 21.22g), Timoleontic Symmachy coinage, c. 339/8-334 BC.
ΖΕΥΣ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΟΣ Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios to left.
Rev. ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ Ηorse prancing to left.

 

Humped - ex Mabbott (Schulman, June 1969 lot 4126) - When I bought this (Stacks, 1994), fewer people were chasing provenance and I only won it because of the damage. I was collecting coins in 1969 but not at a level that would receive Schulman catalogs. Does anyone have that one? The online version (page 16) calls it a bull but I was not smart enough to find the plates online. I do wonder if the plated coin shows the edge notch.
https://archive.org/details/thomasollivemabb00hans_0/page/16/mode/2up

 

An incredible acquisition @David Atherton Congrats on a great purchase.

I have a number of plate coins and I love them all.

LMCC plate coin



Vespasian RIC 773 (This is the RIC reference coin. There is no plate for this coin in RIC). There is one other known and that is owned by @David Atherton



This is another RIC plate coin and a very rare left-facing denarius for Domitian.



This one was issued by Augustus. It is a plate coin in McAlee's The coinage of Roman Antioch.


Here is a Dattari plate coin of Tiberius.


Here is a unique Dattari plate coin for Vespasian.

 

What a stunning and important coin to acquire for your collection, David. Congrats!

My only Flavian plate coin is this provincial, ex BCD, and illustrated in RPC.


DOMITIAN
AE22. 7.85g, 22mm. CORINTHIA, Corinth, circa AD 81-96. BCD Corinth 533 (this coin); RPC 128/1 (this coin illustrated, erroneously shown as 127 on Plate 6). O: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM, radiate head right. R: COL IVL AVG COR, Chimera advancing right.
Ex BCD Collection, ex Lanz sale 105, 2001, lot 533

 

a lovely coin....it looks like the notch was there in 1969

 

Thank you for sharing your example Doug. I've admired it for quite some time!

 

Hi @dougsmit,

The image has the notch. See page 38.
https://archive.org/details/thomasollivemabb00hans_0/page/38/mode/2up

- Broucheion

EDIT: oops, too late, @Sulla80 beat me to it.