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Offline Tanit

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Please Help ID Roman ? Greek ?
« on: November 27, 2007, 06:29:28 pm »


Weight: 8.45 grams

Diameter: 26 mm

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Offline Howard Cole

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Re: Please Help ID Roman ? Greek ?
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2007, 06:28:11 am »
It sort of looks Indo-Greek, or at least an imitation of one.  Without any inscription I really can't tell.
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Re: Please Help ID Roman ? Greek ?
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2007, 10:47:17 am »
I managed finally to identify it.

Numide Unit, 213-200 BC.
Obv: Bare Head of Syphax to the left.
Rev: Rider gallopping to the right, dressed in a coat and holding a scepter; pellet bottom.
Ref: SNG 489 M. (Bocchus II) MZ.3
Alexandropoulos N° 1, p.393
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