Property:Obverse description
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- Identifies a particular face of a numismatic object. Normally it will be the face carrying the represenation, badge or inscription of the issuing authority. In ancient, hand-struck coinage it is generally the lower (anvil) die. In English often known as "heads". (en)
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Male character (Taras or Phalanthos), nude, seated on a dolphin to right. Below, shell. Decorated border. +
1889 - Croton (nomos tripod/incuse tripod) over Agrigentum (eagle/crab) (CNG, MBS 72, June 2006, 153) +
Tripod. In right field, marsh-bird standing left (?). Border of dots. +
Horse right, behind him which stands warrior, nude, wearing helmet, to front, head right, holding spearand shield. In right field, sideways T. (Fields have been smoothed in modern times, presumably to eliminate traces of the host coin). +
Head of Jupiter right, wearing laurel wreath. In left side, 2 pellets. +
1892 - Gela (tetradrachm biga/man-faced bull) over Catana (man-faced-bull/Nike) (New York Sign., 3021, Jan. 2013, 21470) +
Charioteer driving quadriga right, holding kentron and reins. Above, Nike flying right, crowning the horses with wreath. In exergue, palmette with tendrils. Border of dots. +
1894 - Paphos (double siglos bull/eagle) over uncertain type (Roma Numismatics, EA 32, Jan. 2017, 495) +
Bull standing left. Above, winged solar disk. In right field, ankh. In exergue, palmette ornament. +
Apollo advancing right, naked, brandishing laurel branch with right hand, a small daimon running on outstretched left arm. In right field, stag standing right. Decorated border. +
1898 - Metapontum (nomos Leucippus/ear of barley) over Corinth (Pegasus/Athena) (MacDonald coll. 17) +
Head of Leucippus right, wearing Corinthian helmet. In field, grape bunch. +
Head of Zeus left, wearing laurel wreath +
1900 - Metapontum (nomos ear of barley/ear of barley) over Selinus (Selinon leaf/incuse square) (New York, ANS) +
Ear of barley with five grains. Decorated border. +
Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla +
Eage left, head reverted, on stag head. +
1904 - Citium (Azbaal) (double siglos Heracles/lion & stag) over Aegina (turtle/incuse square) (Roma Numismatics, Apr. 2017, 353) +
Herakles in fighting stance to right, wearing lion skin, holding club overhead in right hand and bow extended before him in left hand. +
1907 - Seleuceia ad Tigrim (Antiochus IV) (tetradrachm Antiochus/Apollo) over uncertain type (Gorny & Mosch, 130, March 2004, 1273) +
Head of Antiochos right, wearing diadem. +
1908 - Locri Epizephyrii (nomos Zeus/eagle) over Corinthian type (Cambridge, FM, MacClean, n° 1799) +
Head of Zeus left, wearing laurel wreath. To right, pinecone. +
1909 - Poseidonia (nomos Poseidon/incuse Poseidon) over Metapontum (ear of barley/incuse ear of barley) (New York, ANS) +
Poseidon right, wearing chlamys, brandishing trident. Ornemented border. +
1911 - Citium (Azbaal) (double siglos Heracles/lion & stag) over uncertain type (Heritage Auction, 231942, Oct. 2019, 63110) +
Herakles, wearing lion skin, in fighting stance right, holding club and bow +
1912 - Seleuceia ad Tigrim (Demetrius I) (tetradrachm Demetrius & Laodice/Tyche) over Ecbatana (Timarchus) (Timarchus/Dioscuri) (CNG, MBS 64, Sept. 2003, 391) +
Jugate heads of Demetrios diademed and Ladike draped and wearing stephane right. +
1913 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 33) +
Bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing Armenian tiara decorated with a star between two eagles and tied with a diadem, drapery on shoulders. Border of dots. +
1915 - Nuceria Alfaterna (nomos Apollo/Dioscurus) over uncertain type (Numismatica Ars Classica, 46, Apr. 2008, 780) +
Head of Apollo Carneios left. Border of dots. +
