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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 4848625, member: 74968&quot;]This one is not even close to my collecting area but i loved it&nbsp; when I saw it so I bought it. I love the eagle and dolphin reverse...such a cool image. I also like the portrait of a young Apollo. Yes the coin is off centre but that is okay by me.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other part I love is the provenance. First, it was part of the William Stancomb collection. That on its own is pretty cool. Second it is a published coin. It was published in SNG XI. This volume contains coins from the William Stancomb collection. In fact one reference for the coin is Stancomb 167. Lastly, this coin is a hoard coin. It was part of the Fedesti hoard.</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all I think this is a pretty cool coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hint, if you like this coin read the attribution because there are more coins from the Stancomb collection available and this is a really interesting provenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Moesia, Istros Æ18. Late 4th - early 3rd centuries BC. Laureate head of Apollo right / IΣTPIH above sea-eagle on dolphin left, I below tail. SNG Stancomb 167 (this coin); HGC 3.2, 1814. 3.66g, 18mm, 12h.</p><p>Very Fine.</p><p>From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);</p><p>Acquired from a 1930s collection, April 1978;</p><p>Ex: Fedesti Hoard.</p><p>Ex: Roma Numismatics</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170771[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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