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Offline Goltbeeck

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I.D help please?
« on: August 26, 2003, 07:38:02 am »
Hello to all,

can anyone help me identifying this coin?
If possible with RIC number

I found it in a batch of uncleaned coins wich I purchased some days ago.

many thanks!

Decebal
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Offline Goltbeeck

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Re:I.D help please?
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2003, 07:38:40 am »
and the reverse:
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Re:I.D help please?
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2003, 07:59:15 am »
Can you read anything of the inscriptions?
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Re:I.D help please?
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2003, 08:23:11 am »
no, the coin is covered in a thick greenish patina,
I was thinking of stripping it off but I think its better to leave it like this,
On the obverse I can read something like . . a t i i
the reverse is something like ILIX or HLX but I'm not sure...
the size is 16 mm

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Re:I.D help please?
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2003, 08:37:48 am »
The reverse (or a very similar one) was used on some provincials from Nikopolis ad Istrum.  Do any of the letters look Greek?
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Offline Alex

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Re:I.D help please?
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2003, 12:31:04 pm »
Its definatelly a provincial coin.  The portrait looks to be the one of a young boy.  I think I can also guess the P GETA part on the obverse....

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Re:I.D help please?
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2003, 04:25:16 pm »
as alex said

this is GETA

pti geta - sept geta

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Re:I.D help please?
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2003, 04:28:49 pm »
have a look at this temple type for a reveverse legend match from

Nicaea , bithynia

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/bigpic.cgi?img=coins/./ric/geta/_nicaea_AE18_RecGen_520.jpg&ruler=./ric/geta/i.html

there are lots of provincial types, but see if the legend of yours makes any more sense now

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Re:I.D help please?
« Reply #8 on: August 27, 2003, 03:37:19 am »
GC is of course 100% correct (as always). This is a common enough type.

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Offline Goltbeeck

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Re:I.D help please?
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2003, 08:12:18 am »
I think its common because I found a second one in the same batch of coins already only not as nice as this one,
Thanks for helping!

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