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Offline palves

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Macedonia Philip II
« on: April 10, 2021, 07:22:03 am »
Hi,

I have this coin as
Macedonia - Philip II   359-336 BC   
AE 17
Head of Apollo, hair bound with tainia
FILIPPOU Naked youth on prancing horse (J below)   

I am struggling to get a more precise ID as I cannot find a reference with a J below. Is that a J?

Thanks

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Re: Macedonia Philip II
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2021, 08:32:08 am »
Although I am unsure what the control mark symbol is it is certainly not a "J" because that letter does not exist in the Greek alphabet. The symbol possibly isn't even a letter at all. I am sorry that I cannot help further but maybe one of our other members will chip in.

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Re: Macedonia Philip II
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2021, 09:31:33 am »
In Alfred Bellinger, "Philippi in Macedonia", Museum Notes (American Numismatic Society), Vol. 11 (1964), pp. 29-52, you find on page 42 as number 60 a specimen with a mirrored E which is probably the sign on your coin:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3896520&view=image&seq=282

The coins are today in the collection of the ANS:
http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.12747
http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.12748
http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.12750

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Re: Macedonia Philip II
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2021, 11:02:54 am »
I have one of Philip's coins with the mirrored "E" in my own collection. https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-168749
I thought that the symbol on Palves' coin looked different but looking at the "ANS" coins perhaps that is what it is.

Alex

 

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