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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orielensis, post: 7937264, member: 96898&quot;]That coin is fascinating. The Pegasus looks very much like the iconic coin type of Corinth. I remember reading somewhere that Kroton copied foreign designs on specific fractions in order to make it easier to exchange money of different weight standards. Two tripod Kroton staters and one Kroton 1/6 stater with a pegasus would, for example, equal two Corinthian pegasus staters. Do you maybe know more about this?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I stumbled across references to this publication when reading up on my coin, but since it was published in Australia and apparently had only a very small print run, it&#039;s extremely hard to get access to this book. There isn&#039;t a copy in my local German university library, and the Swiss national library network that I use for work doesn&#039;t have Gale&#039;s book either. A pity!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hey [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] , we appear to be Kyzikos tripod buddies:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1373220[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">Mysia, Kyzikos, AE18, 4th–3rd c. BC. Obv: head of Kore soteira wearing sakkos and earring r. Rev: K-Y/Z-I; tripod with three handles over tunny fish; monogram (AE) and control mark in fields. 18.5mm, 5.55g. Ref: see BMC 136–140 (different control marks); von Fritze 1917, no. 6.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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