Greek? AE1 Obverse-? Reverse-Tripod

[basher_boy]

Hello all,

I have been working on a box of greek coins my late father had stashed away.  Some my father and grandfather had attributed, many he had not, but I can't blame him it must have been super hard before the internet.  These coins wer almost certainly from my grandfather who was a civil engineer all through Europe and Africa in the 1910 and 1920s.  Most of the coins were foiund on the job site but some were bought

I have been successful on 99% of the coins, but have a few that are in the stump pile.

Here is the first one that is not revealing itself to me.  It is a bronze 27 mm, 20 grams. 

The reverse is a tripod

The obverse is corroded to the oint that the image is not obvious.  My father had attributed the coin to Rhegion, Bruttium, becasue he felt the image was of a lionscalp.  I do not believe that is true.  I have several AE lion scalps and this does not look like one to me.  It looks more like a janiform head over wings.  Either way I can not find any coins with a tripod reverse or obverse that have a similar oppisite side.  My father has a refrence to SEA 316 which is surely a catalog(maybe a refrence book), but I can not find that either.  At any rate he says that coin was similar but with a janiform head instead of a lion's scalp.

Thanks for the help in advance

Seb

[shanxi]

For me this is Athena wearing a corinthian helmet.

Similar like this, but not necessarily this coin, there are other examples from other cities:
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1844459

[Molinari]

I think you are right, shanxi.  Either that or it is a strange over strike.

[basher_boy]

shanxi

I never would have seen it without your help.  You know how you look at these and get stuck in a rut. 

[Molinari]

By the way, your coin has a bad case of bronze disease.  There are plenty of resources here to help you treat it.

[basher_boy]

Again thank you so much for your suggestion and pointing me in the right direction.  The coins were all stored in vinyl coin flips, in a climate controlled area by my father.  They were looked at only occasionally. About 12 months ago I realized the PVC was leaching onto the coins, and treated every coin in the collection to remove the PVC residue, and put them into fresh PVC flips while I figured out what to do.  After 12 months I have attributed all but six or so coins.  Now that I have a sense of relative value one from the other I can begin to work on preserving the best coins.  I hadn't gotten so far as looking up how to treat the various conditions, as I was most worried about the medeivel silver crowns some of which had a blue slime on them becasue of the PVC disease.