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Pendrakon

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Greek ID help please
« on: October 06, 2011, 10:35:28 pm »
I need some Greek ID help please. I am a Roman collector but keep finding interesting Greek coins. The obverse looks like Nike, the reverse has a winged thunderbolt within a wreath. I think it is probably Seleukid but I am definitely not an expert. I could probably redo the scan on the reverse because you can read it better in hand. 24mm and a heavy 12.3 grams. I have a copy of BMC but do not know where to look. Your help is appreciated-

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Re: Greek ID help please
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2011, 11:40:23 pm »
I would agreee with you that it is probably Seleucid, but the obverse will probably turn out to be the ruler and not Nike. :) Hopefully rover will see this thread as he is the go to guy on this type of coinage (and other types as well for that matter!).

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Re: Greek ID help please
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2011, 12:13:56 am »
How about Sear 6795 in Wildwinds, or something close to it?

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Re: Greek ID help please
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2011, 12:14:23 am »
Philip V of Macedon.

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Re: Greek ID help please
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2011, 12:34:53 am »
Hi Barry-
Bingo! I think we have a match! This one is 12.3 grams. Where would I find it listed?

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Re: Greek ID help please
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2011, 02:50:49 am »
Here you find a bunch of them, together with references:
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?search=%28philip+philipp%29+v+%28makedonien+macedon%29+%28thunderbolt+blitzb%C3%BCndel%29+%28strahlenkranz+strahlenkrone+radiate%29&view_mode=1&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ol=1&sort=&c=&a=&l=#0

Most have at the top of the reverse the  :Greek_Delta: :Greek_Iota: monogram as on your coin.
But they differ in the monograms on the bottom of the reverse, if they have any.
On the pictures I do not recognise if there are monograms and which ones :-\.

Here http://coins.ekt.gr/coinsSearch.jsp?lang=en you can search for "Philip V" and "Thunderbolt" and you will find even more specimens with rather detailed descriptions.

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Altamura

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Re: Greek ID help please
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2011, 03:44:04 am »
Philip V of Macedon.

Barry Murphy

yes - and interesting in that these seem to be among the largest/heaviest Macedonian Kingdom bronze coins.  these stand out.

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Re: Greek ID help please
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2011, 04:45:18 pm »
Wow! I was way off! Nice coin, btw.

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Re: Greek ID help please
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2011, 04:54:35 pm »
Thanks guys for your help on this one. I would never have figered it out by myself!

 

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