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The first coin is 21.00 mm for 3.40 grs, the second is 3.26 grs, no syze found. The third: 19.00 mm for 2.67 grs. The foruth is 2.97 grs, no syze found.

hello

Thanks for your time.

I have looked on greek coins, and I think that it might be a coin from Thessaly.

The following example are given for "THESSALY, Koinon of Thessaly."

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3332526
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3343742
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3346154

Do you think that is the correct ID ?

Is "Æ Assarion" the correct denomination according to its weight ?

Does the "letters" found on my coin match with this ?

Regards,

Laurent.

Thanks for that.
You are absolutely correct.
Impressive pick up.

Regards Danny

Thank you, Simon 

 Joe

[In "Opuscula Anatolica IV", NC Vol. 174 (2014), pp. 1-28, there is a chapter by Philip Kinns called "Lunate letter forms in the 4th century and Hellenistic coinage of Ionia".
He shows that the use of the lunate forms of sigma, omega and epsilon on coins began already in the forth century BC (for some of these letters earlier, for some later) and have been used in parallel to the usual forms.

That is considerably earlier than I was aware of, for coins. Thank you for the Opuscula Anatolica IV article, it is quite an interesting read.

Very attractive, nice coin.

Thank you both for those comments. This is fascinating.
Virgil

I have had a consignor send several very similar objects. I returned them because I was unable to identify them.

... The epsilon looks more a lunate epsilon () than the "archaic" form (E). The original Ephesos coins date to the second century BC, but lunate epsilon is from AD. In local coins from the RPC, "E" is still in use during the reign of Claudius ...

In "Opuscula Anatolica IV", NC Vol. 174 (2014), pp. 1-28, there is a chapter by Philip Kinns called "Lunate letter forms in the 4th century and Hellenistic coinage of Ionia".
He shows that the use of the lunate forms of sigma, omega and epsilon on coins began already in the forth century BC (for some of these letters earlier, for some later) and have been used in parallel to the usual forms.

Here is an example with lunar epsilon from Herakleia in Ionia from the second or first century BC: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85188388
another one from the second century BC from Smyrna: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6007560

Regards

Altamura

theodoraavgusta added to the NFSL