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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 4899068, member: 51347&quot;]This one is a plate coin in our own CT member, [USER=78411]@Nicholas Molinari[/USER] &#039;s book:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1182177[/ATTACH]</p><p><i><span style="color: #b30000">[USER=78411]@Nicholas Molinari[/USER] :</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #b30000">&quot;Your first coin is a plate coin in <b>Potamikon</b>, number 343 in our catalog so Sambon 663; Taliercio IIIa.16; MSP I, 343, featuring Acheloios Sebethos as a man-faced bull. Taliercio cited three examples of this type, so yours is the fourth known of that particular variety.&quot;</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #b30000">&quot;According to my notes, ACR E-Auction 28 lot 12.&quot;</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Campania, Neopolis</p><p>275-250 BCE</p><p>AE 18, 4.99g</p><p>Obv: Laureate Head of Apollo, NEOPOLITON (in Greek), Theta at r.</p><p>Rev: Achelous advancing r, crowned by flying Nike, IOTA SIGMA under Achelous</p><p>Ref: Sambon 663; HN Italy 589; SNG ANS 474; SNG Copenhage - ;</p><p>Comment: Achelous was a river god from the Achelous River (largest river in Greece). Derivation of his name predates the Greeks, and later the River God became the god over all rivers, lakes, streams, and waters not controlled by Neptune.</p><p>Provenance: Plate coin in Potamikon, number 343 in our catalog so Sambon 663; Taliercio IIIa.16; MSP I, 343, featuring Acheloios Sebethos as a man-faced bull. Taliercio cited three examples of this type, so yours is the fourth known of that particular variety.</p><p>ACR E-Auction 28 lot 12.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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