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Ancient Diobol Forgery BUT of What Type?
« on: April 20, 2009, 09:15:50 pm »


1.372 g
11.5 mm
12h

This one also has us puzzled.  Possibly Thracian?  Who or what is T - A?
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Re: Ancient Diobol Forgery BUT of What Type?
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2009, 05:53:11 am »
T - A usually occurs on Temnos coins. I agree, however, that it looks a bit like a coin of a Thracian Dynast at first glance. Did you check Ulrike Peter, die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten, Berlin 1997?

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