Looks like fun, Nick! A coin phish that appears in your book: SICILY, Selinos Circa 410 BCE AR litra, 11mm, 0.76 g, 1h Obv: nymph seated left on rock, right hand raised above her head, extending her left hand to touch coiled serpent before her; selinon leaf above Rev: man-faced bull standing right; ΣEΛINONTIOΣ above; in exergue, fish right Ref: Potamikon, p. 116 figure 152 (this coin); HGC 2, 1229; SNG ANS 711–2 var. (ethnic); SNG Ashmolean 1904–5; SNG Lloyd 1270 var. (same); Basel –; Dewing –; Rizzo pl. XXXIII, 6. Good VF, dark iridescent tone, some porosity. Rare. ex MoneyMuseum, Zurich; ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 404; ex Athos Moretti collection, #482, unpublished manuscript ARKADIA, Psophis 450-30 BCE AR obol, 10 mm, 0.69 gm Obv: forepart of Kerynitian hind right Rev: fish right, O above, archaic psi below, all within circle incuse Ref: BCD Peloponnesos 1680 (same dies). Rare. ex Frank James Collection ex CNG ex BCD Collection
I would have said fish left with the psi above and the o below. It also makes the fish curve more natural to my eye.
That’s the nicest of the type I’ve seen. Every year I say I’m too old for this and every year it is true, yet I still go. Another phish from Mysia, Miletopolis. Miletopolis, Mysia, Civic coinage, 4th century BC. AE11. Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right; below, tunny right. Rev: MYLH clockwise, Bull standing left. SNG France 1301 corr (Tunny not described
I don't get the reference (I take it nothing to do with hockey? ), but here you go! Thurium , in Lucania (443-400 BC), diobol
Hmm. I think you and I had a private discussion about this four or five years ago. I did put considerable thought into the rotation back then and thought I was correct based on fish anatomy, even though the engraver didn't show all of the fins a fish would normally have or else they were worn. I found some fish with similar shaped heads as the orientation I used. Archives were of limited use because most of these coins are very worn or otherwise indistinct and the engravers weren't as concerned as we are about anatomic correctness . Some have the fish swimming right with o above, some have fish left with o above. Others (the majority) have the psi above. Some have the o and psi in the same field. CNG and other auction houses have sometime oriented the o above and sometimes below. Looking through archives again I see a double die match to mine and the cataloger decided the fish was swimming left. The coin is slightly higher grade and what I thought was a contour of the fish's head might instead be pectoral fins, which would make you correct . https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=141749
THRACE, PANTIKAPAION AE21 OBVERSE: Head of Pan left REVERSE: Roaring lion's head left; fish below Struck at Pantikapaion 400-300BC 5.3g, 21mm SNG BMC Black Sea 883
CHINA PHISH MONEY China Zhou Dynasty 1046-256 BCE AE Fish Money 67mm 9.5g AB Coole Enc Chinese Coins 6920ff EX: @Ken Dorney as recommended by @ancientcoinguru
Aaand... This. Guy... One of my favorite coins... also featured in his book... Campania AE Apollo-Achelous 275-250BCE SNG ANS 474 @Nicholas Molinari 15-June-2016 "Your ... coin is a plate coin in Potamikon, number 343 in our catalog so Sambon 663; Taliercio IIIa.16; MSP I, 343, featuring Acheloios Sebethos as a man-faced bull. Taliercio cited three examples of this type, so yours is the fourth known of that particular variety."
What a coincidence! Only yesterday I made some pics on an exhibition of Fish in Art. There was this Escher woodcut.
This is a late 16th cent. Flemish (?) painting of a merchant selling fish. The money in his palm is very much detailed, but I couldn’t recognize the coin types.
