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Offline antvwala

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What is this coin?
« on: June 14, 2009, 08:06:08 am »
Please, what is this coin?  ???
diameter: 12 mm - pound: 2,01 g
Thank you.

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Offline Minos

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Re: What is this coin?
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2009, 03:48:21 pm »
Don't know if it's of any help but according to the "Dictionary of Greek coin inscriptions", with the N being the only (visible ?) letter of the legend, the following would be the probable cities from where it could come from (did a quick search on those and did not came up with any results...) :

Nacona, Siciliae
Naupactus, Aetoliae
Neapolis, Campaniae
Nesos, Lesbi
Scepsis, Troadis
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Re: What is this coin?
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2009, 02:05:10 am »
Thank you, Minos, but nothing of these mint seen to correspond to my coin. I don't understand what is the symbol of obverse: a silphium? a tree?
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Re: What is this coin?
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2009, 09:53:13 am »
Nothing?  :-\
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Re: What is this coin?
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2009, 10:20:28 am »
No idea.  I don't understand what the reverse is either.  I doesn't look like silphium.  I think that's more like a stalk with braches off the sides.  Perhaps a tree.
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Re: What is this coin?
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2009, 10:54:27 am »
Thank you.

"I think that's more like a stalk with braches off the sides.  Perhaps a tree." I believe same thing.

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Re: What is this coin?
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2009, 09:06:33 pm »
maybe the half of an off-center thunderbolt?
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Re: What is this coin?
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2009, 09:09:43 pm »
Maybe, I don't know...
Thanks. Antvwala
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