Here is a pretty tetrobol I purchased last year:
AR Tetrobol
Size: 15mm Weight: 2.68 grams Die axis: 12h
Histiaia, Euboea
Mid 4th century BCE
Obverse: Head of the nymph Histiaia right, hair bound in decorative sakkos, wearing wreath with grape bunches, single-drop pendant earring, and pearl necklace.
Reverse: The nymph Histiaia seated right on the stern of galley, her left arm placed around stylis to right; galley decorated with wing, grape bunch to left; IΣTIAI-EΩN around.
Ex EJW Ltd eAuction 34 (20 June 2001), lot 49Thanks to fellow
Forvm members in this
thread (
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=127804.msg768772;topicseen#msg768772), I was able to get some images of other coins with the same reference ‘
Gulbenkian 510’. The first is the
Gulbenkian coin, the second a
BCD coin, and the third is from Naville X 1925.
There are differences in the
reverse die of my coin compared to the others, but I think this could be explained by
reverse die wear/breaks and photo lighting so I am inclined to think the reverses do match.
Although very similar, in my eyes my coin is not an
obverse die match to the other coins. The main differences I see are the grapes in the hair, the lower and upper seams of the
sakkos, the upper
part of the drop earring, the necklace position and some loose hair placements. A possibility I think is that that the original
obverse die was reworked as the dies wore down. I would be interested to know the thoughts of other
Forvm members, and ofcourse if you know of any other images I am missing.