Syracuse DONE by Mark, thanks so much for a great job

[zoser]

AE19
8,4 gr

Any help is very apreciated.

Thanks in advance

[zoser]

Hi, any idea about this coin? The most similar I have found is one from Larissa Kremaste, but doesn't seem to be the one I have.

[djmacdo]

This is a tough one.  The types are common, most of the ethic is illegible, and what is there is not diagnostic.  I notice the N is reversed and the workmanship not the greatest.  This may be an ancient imitation, though I am not sure of what.  Perhaps a coin of one of the Macedonian cities?

[zoser]

Hi djmacdo, yes it is tough, Zeus-Athena are so typic to find it in Acsearch or werhever.
I will have a look today to Macedonian cities coinage on Wildwinds, just in case something is found.
Thanks so much!

[zoser]

Hi Djmacdo, no luck looking for it on any Macedonian city, at least coins that Wildwinds shows, I'll keep trying, thanks so much for your help

[djmacdo]

It is an interesting and frustrating coin.

[Molinari]

I was thinking somewhere in Pisidia because of the obverse style but I've had no luck finding it. 

[Mark Fox]

Dear Zoser, Mac, Nick, and Board,

Please see the attached photo of a Syracusian bronze struck under Roman rule (20mm, 7.70 g., 12h; struck after 212 BC; Calciati 240).  For further specimens, this link might be of some interest:

http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Area_IV_map/Syracusa_map/descrSyrC_240a.html   
 
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” —Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (1890).

Hope this helps.


Best regards,

Mark Fox
Michigan

 

[zoser]

Thanks so much to all of you!

Hi Mark, it seems to be quite quite similar, specially one of the two specimens on the link.

I have had a look on Acserach too and it seems that weight and size are simillar too.

I really think you got it.

[Joe Sermarini]

BUT, the coin in the first post looks cast.

[zoser]

BUT, the coin in the first post looks cast.

Hi Joe, do you mean mine or coin showed by Mark?

King regards

[djmacdo]

I think Mark nailed it--the style is identical and unmistakable.

[Mark Fox]

Dear Joe and Board,

I know what you mean, and almost anything is possible, but I have little doubt that Zoser's coin is genuine.  In my opinion, it looks as if the coin was clumsily cleaned with something like a scalpel to remove stubborn encrustations and then polished to erase some of the resulting damage.     

In Zoser's obverse photo, the encrustation on the edge of the coin at 3:00 is a detail not often seen on modern casts, at least in my experience.

   
Best regards,

Mark Fox
Michigan

[zoser]

Thanks so much to Djmacdo, Molinari and Fox and everyone who has had a look and try.
Difficult one but got it, awesome job!!