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Helmeted head of athena-Nike Provincial or Greek?
« on: December 15, 2016, 11:24:26 am »
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Re: Helmeted head of athena-Nike Provincial or Greek?
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2016, 04:45:10 pm »
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Re: Helmeted head of athena-Nike Provincial or Greek?
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2016, 06:40:38 am »
a third possibility:

There are many coin types with athena and nike, but letters behind the head of athena are quite rare, but common for Seleukeia ad Kalykadnon.

Most of these coins from Seleukeia are bigger and heavyer but there are also smaler types.

The variation of monograms in front of nike and letters behind the head of athena is big.

Here is one example, maybe not a 100% perfect fit, but the monograms in front of nike and the letters behind the head of athena are similar:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1534895

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Re: Helmeted head of athena-Nike Provincial or Greek?
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2016, 06:02:26 am »
Maybe Apamea, like mine:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-40878

Hi Molinari, it is quite similar but I don´t think they are equal as mine seems to has a pigtail.

The point here is that there are such a big amount of similar coins, so it is gonna be a hard job and maybe impossible, at least for me.

Thans so much

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Re: Helmeted head of athena-Nike Provincial or Greek?
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2016, 06:10:48 am »
a third possibility:

There are many coin types with athena and nike, but letters behind the head of athena are quite rare, but common for Seleukeia ad Kalykadnon.

Most of these coins from Seleukeia are bigger and heavyer but there are also smaler types.

The variation of monograms in front of nike and letters behind the head of athena is big.

Here is one example, maybe not a 100% perfect fit, but the monograms in front of nike and the letters behind the head of athena are similar:

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1534895

Hi Shanxi, at the beginning I thought it could be from Seleukeia ad Kalykadnon too but after having a look at all the coins in Asiaminorcoins, Wildwinds, acsearch etc.... I haven´t found any portrait of Athena as the one that mine depictes so I am lost

Thanks so much

 

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