I'm quite in love with this tiny little Greek (?) coin from my uncleaned lot, but I'm going nowhere with any sort of ID. It doesn't
help that you can only kind of see the
face, and... that's it, really. I was starting to lose contrast in the cleaning process actually, so I elected to stop and wax it, while it
still has some kind of chance at an ID.
Anyways, 11.5mm or so,
bust facing right
obverse, and no idea on a
reverse. I was thinking the
face was looking a
bit masculine, so I was leaning something like
Apollo on the
obverse, but it also looks like there might've been some
head gear present back in the day, so I've also been looking at
Athena and
Artemis for
obverse in particular.
I
ran through a
good portion of the
Greek coins for sale here first, to see if I could find a sense of direction to go looking in. Then I hopped over to
acsearch (which I love by the way... marvelous stuff!) and typed in almost every combination I could think of for what I thought it might be. I tried to look through
Wildwinds too, but looking on there is a lot more intimidating if you don't have any letters or
mint marks or ideas as to what emperor something might be to give you a vague idea. I'm not well-versed in
Greek coins (I'm a
Roman woman, through and through), so if someone sees some vague facial recognition, has any clue about what the
reverse may have once been, or can
help me narrow down a time period or region to go looking through, I'd be quite grateful.
I also sincerely apologize for the
quality of the picture. I took about 20 of them in different lighting with different backgrounds, and this little sucker is just so tiny that it's hard to get focused.. also tried messing with the filters, but none of them helped either (Filters are so weird). Add "really nice camera" to the list of things I buy if I ever hit the lotto...