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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3199365, member: 57495&quot;]My larger butting bull from Syracuse is an AE22.&nbsp; It was bought off a Frank Robinson cheap list, and is by virtue of that fact a coin with issues. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I suppose &quot;patina faults&quot; is a good way to describe it. I don&#039;t consider the off-centre reverse a fault... I love the fact it makes the bull look like it&#039;s charging off the flan. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]827592[/ATTACH]<b>SICILY, Syracuse. Agathokles. </b></p><p>AE22. 10.15g, 22.2mm. SICILY, Syracuse, time of Agathokles, struck circa 317-310 BC. HGC 2, 1444; CNS 96. O: [ΣΥPAKOΣIΩN], Head of Kore-Persephone left, wreathed with grain; grain ear behind. R: Bull charging left; dolphins above and below, NK monogram above.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Hieron II butting bull is a smaller denomination. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]827594[/ATTACH]<b>SICILY, Syracuse. Hieron II.</b></p><p>AE18. 4.08g, 17.9mm. SICILY, Syracuse, Hieron II, circa 275-269/265 BC. CNS 199; HGC 2, 1497; Virzi 1924 (this coin). O: Wreathed head of Kore-Persephone left. R: Bull butting left; club and monogram above, IE in exergue.</p><p><i>Ex Edgar L. Owen Collection; ex Thomas Virzi Collection (1881-1974), no. 1924</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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