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Offline SeptimusT

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Tiny Greek AE - Prow?
« on: February 20, 2020, 11:15:14 am »
Very small, 10mm. The reverse is perhaps a prow left, while the obverse is a female bust, perhaps Aphrodite or Persephone?
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Offline Altamura

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Re: Tiny Greek AE - Prow?
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2020, 06:09:30 am »
Hard to tell  :-\.

There are small bronzes from Knidos in Caria with Aphrodite's or Apollo's head on the obverse (here it is probably Apollo) and a prow on the reverse. Perhaps the coin is one of these.

But there exist many variants with different magistrates, symbols etc.
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8522407r
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8522397t
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8522399n
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=550902
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8522416q
(and many more).

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Altamura
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