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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1974 - Metapontum (nomos ear of barley/ear of barley) over Agrigentum (eagle /crab) (Paris, BnF, de Luynes 455) +
Ear of barley with five grains. Decorated border. +
Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath. +
1976 - Agrigentum (didrachm eagle/crab) over Corinth (Athena/Pegasus) (Kricheldorf 28, June 1974, 34) +
Eagle left. +
1977 - Gandhara/Punjab (uncertain mint) (Vonones-Spalahores) (AE Heracles/Athena) over Strato I (Apollo/tripod) (Senior 2002, p. 13-14, 41) +
Heracles standing facing, holding club and lion skin and crawling himself. +
Apollo advancing right, naked, brandishing laurel branch with right hand, a small daimon running on outstretched left arm. In right field, stag standing right. In left field, head of bull within wreath. In right field, stag standing right on basis. +
1982 - Citium (Azbaal) (double siglos Heracles/lion & stag) over Aegina (turtle/incuse square) (Destrooper-Georgiades 2013, 30) +
Herakles in fighting stance to right, wearing lion skin upon his back and tied around neck, holding club overhead in right hand and bow extended before him in left hand. Dotted border. +
Tripod. In right field, marsh-bird standing right (?). Border of dots. +
1985 - Gela (tetradrachm) (quadriga/man-headed bull) over Mende (Dionysus/incuse square) (New York, ANS, 1959.126.1) +
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. +
1986 - Catana (tetradrachm biga/Apollo) over uncertain type (Roma Numismatics Auction, 14, Sept. 2017, 59) +
Charioteer driving quadriga to right, holding kentron and reins. Above, Nike flying to right, crowning horses with wreath. +
1988 - Croton (nomos tripod/incuse eagle) over Corinthian type (Pegasus/Athena) (CNG, MBS 76, Sept. 2007, 95) +
Tripod +
Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath +
Eagle with raised wings right, holding a hare in its claws. +
1992 - Paphos (double siglos bull/eagle) over Aegina (tortoise/incuse square) (Roma Numismatics, EA 45, May 2018, 314) +
Bull standing left. Above, winged solar disk. In right field, ankh. In exergue, palmette ornament. +
1993 - Locri Epizephyrii (Nomos Zeus/eagle) over Corinthian type (Pegasus/Athena) (Auctiones, 29, June 2003, 497) +
Head of Zeus right, wearing laurel wreath. In left field, thunderbolt. Border of dots. +
1997 - Terina (nomos nymph/Nike) over Agrigentum (eagle/crab) (Numismatica Ars Classica, Q, Apr. 2006, 1150) +
Female head (nymph Terina?) right. +
Europa, nude to the waist, seated facing in tree, raising her veil with right hand, left arm holding eagle with spread wings in her lap. +
2000 - Salamis (double siglos ram/no type) over Aegina (turtle/incuse square) (Gorny & Mosch, 134, Oct. 2004, 1503) +
Ram recumbent to left +
2001 - Samos (tetradrachm facing lion/forepart of bull) over Athens (Athena/owl) (London, BM, HPB, p. 112.51) +
Lion scalp facing. +
Hound right. In the background, three grain ears. +