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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2948022, member: 42773&quot;]<font size="5">I drove over hill and dale today to get to a collector who was parting with some of his coins, and overall the trip was worth the effort. I got a LOT of budget LRB&#039;s and common Greek bronzes, along with some better-grade provincials. Here are the two best morsels from the lot...</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">One of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-leaping" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-leaping" rel="nofollow">Taurokathapsia</a>, or bull-leaping drachms of Larissa. This is one of my favorite Greek motifs, but these coins were struck all over the map in terms of centering, and they circulated heavily. The survival rate of better coins is pretty low, and I&#039;ve never come across one in real life that I wanted to buy until today. Man I LOVE this coin - look at the intense expressions on the faces of both the leaper and bull, and what a strike on the reverse - perfectly centered. Just a gorgeous Greek art coin with magnificent style...</font></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]719511[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">And a denarius of moneyer M. Barbatius Pollio, with Mark Antony and Octavian. (You may have heard of them - they had a bit of a tête-à-tête some two thousand years ago). How often do you see this type centered so well as to catch all the lettering?</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]719514[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">(Mark Antony is proudly wearing his Star Trek insignia.)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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