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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2056401, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=85622.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=85622.0" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=85622.0</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can read the above which says way too much.&nbsp; A lot of what is said by anyone on these coins is based on theories more conjectural than factual.&nbsp; The first post refers to papers on acadamia.com which are now bad links.&nbsp; Linking Pythagoras to the issue is very important to some while others are equally devoted to proving the coins predate his arrival in the area.&nbsp; Dating these coins is not absolute.&nbsp; I do not have one of the earliest series with spread fabric but I do have a late Kroton stater which only partly captures the idea. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]378475[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite is the little Metapontum 1/12 stater which replaces the incuse of the entire ear of barley with a single kernel.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]378474[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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