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Thanks. It took a long time to find one I liked, at a price I could live with.

Thanks. It caught my eye. Really liked the reverse.

Thanks Jim. I stumbled on it the day before the auction ended. The portrait certainly clinched it for me. I had been looking for one, for a long time.

Thanks. I used Hierons specimen as an example to strive towards. After a decade, this was the best I could find & fund. FYI The photo is overexposed. It has a rich tone to it.

As I said before, great style of the portrait. The revers is elegant as well.

Thank you, Paul. I'm looking forward to getting it and to seeing how accurate the picture is. I've wanted a good Metapontum stater for years. As a type they are fairly common, but well struck and preserved ones are hard to find.

Perfect...........

found the reference. Very interesting. https://decazo1.com/6507-thickbox_default/spengler-sayles-turkoman-figural-bronze-coins-and-their-iconography-volume-1.jpg

Great idea. However, the bottom of your totem pole looks awfully nice. It must be hard to part with some of them. When you sell some let me know and maybe I can buy one from you.

This type is very interesting in that it copies a classical theme displayed on engraved gems of this period. See for example the carnelian in Vienna: www.khm.at/de/object/c9688678cc/ The waves around the bust don't correspond to a drapery or veil but to water, this is well illustrated on another small serie of similar gems but featuring a male deity seen from front: the representation is a swimming deity. The identification is disputed: a nereid (Galene or Amphitrite), Selene (one gem feature