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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NSisci, post: 2441848, member: 79427&quot;]About the denomination of the incuse man-faced bull of Rhegion: this coin was issued on a weight standard used by the Chalcidian poleis of Sicily in the second half of VI c. BC, in particular at Himera, Zankle and Naxos. It is variously called by different scholars: Euboeic (Rutter), Reduced Aeginetan, Calchidian, Euboic-Calchidian (Kraay), Micro-Asian (Parise, Breglia). It is based on a major denomination of about 5.70g, defined as drachm, and fractionals, mostly obols.</p><p>The weight standard has near-eastern origins and connection with the archaic coinage of Cyprus, we deal with the issue in Potamikon.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fmanfacedbullsar.files.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F02%2Frhegbnf5-96g.jpg&amp;hash=16c05c53e79dd76d963d669ced30463b" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>...this specimen, posted by ancientnut, is stored in the Cabinet des Medailles at Paris, from the Dupré collection (5,64g). It is the only known sample of which we have a clear image. A second fragmentary specimen of this drachm was published on an auction catalogue in 1997 (Vecchi auction 5, 1997, lot 81). A third specimen published by Larizza (Larizza P. Rhegium Calcidense, Roma: 1905, p.99) is not anymore considered in numismatic studies as it has been condemned as forgery. (Carroccio Benedetto “Il toro androprosopo,la cicala e l&#039;incuso reggino”, Lugano: 2000, p.48). Here a picture:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]509014[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This fake specimen was stored at the Civic Museum of Reggio Calabria in south Italy, it went lost on 28 december 1908, after a terrible earthquake and tsunami destroyed the city.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bye <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Nico[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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