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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4508515, member: 57495&quot;]With almost no new coins coming in these days, over the past week I&#039;ve gone back to delving into my small pile of ex BCD unknowns.&nbsp; This weekend, I managed to attribute a couple, including the first one below.</p><p><br /></p><p>The types are clear enough, but Italy during the late Roman Republic was not at all my first guess as to where or when it was struck.&nbsp; The exact mint location is still uncertain, but a recent study of overstrikes by Stannard &amp; Skinner establishes the dating quite confidently to the late 90s to early 80s BC (during the Social War).&nbsp; It&#039;s pretty modest-looking, but actually quite nice for the type.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1117485[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CAMPANIA, Capua (?)</b></p><p>AE18. 5.43g, 17.7mm. HN III 2672; CAMPANIA, Capua (?), circa late 90s/early 80s BC. SNG Copenhagen 342-343; Lindgren II 190; Stannard &amp; Sinner, &quot;A Central Italian coin...&quot;, Saguntum 46 (2014), p. 161, 1.&nbsp; O: Head of youthful Dionysos to right wearing ivy wreath. R: Panther to right, holding thyrsos over shoulder.</p><p><i>Ex BCD Collection (Incerta)</i></p><p>For further info see:</p><p>1. Stannard &amp; Sinner. &quot;<a href="http://stannard.info/stannard_c_&amp;_sinner_ag_a_central_italian_coin%20with_dionysos_panther_types_&amp;_contacts_between_central_italy_and_spain_sagplav46.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://stannard.info/stannard_c_&amp;_sinner_ag_a_central_italian_coin%20with_dionysos_panther_types_&amp;_contacts_between_central_italy_and_spain_sagplav46.pdf" rel="nofollow">A Central Italian coin with Dionysos/Panther types, and contacts between Central Italy and Spain in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC</a>.&quot; Saguntum 46 (2014), p. 161, 1.</p><p>2. Yarrow, Liv Mariah. &quot;<a href="https://livyarrow.org/2019/09/30/dionysus-and-panther-at-the-meta-sudans/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://livyarrow.org/2019/09/30/dionysus-and-panther-at-the-meta-sudans/" rel="nofollow">Dionysus and Panther at the Meta Sudans</a>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another one, below, with extremely rough surfaces that made the reverse type challenging to figure out.&nbsp; Thankfully, I managed to match it with one of the BCD tags the lot came with, which helpfully identified what was inside the wreath as the forepart of a winged horse.&nbsp; Things always seem so much clearer when someone spells it out for you. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; With that sorted out, I could narrow down a handful of cities the coin might belong to, and even though the type seems rare enough that no examples show up in acsearch or wildwinds, I did find it listed in SNG Copenhagen, under Lampsakos.&nbsp; Interesting that the tag suggests a find spot in Thessaly!</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1117492[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>MYSIA, Lampsakos</b></p><p>AE18. 3.8g, 18.2mm. MYSIA, Lampsakos, 2nd - 1st centuries BC. SNG Cop 216. O: Laureate head of Apollo right. R: Forepart of pegasos with curled wing within wreath.</p><p><i>Ex BCD Collection (Incerta), with his handwritten tag noting &quot;C.C. ex Thess., Nov 92, DM 15.&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>I also photographed a few others that are still &quot;in progress&quot;, like this interesting facing head bronze.&nbsp; The obverse resembles issues of Miletos with Apollo&#039;s facing head, but the reverse looks nothing like the lions on those bronzes.&nbsp; Maybe I have the orientation completely wrong, but it looks more like a bull butting left, or the forepart of a calf right??</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1117493[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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