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Offline propraetoris79

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Greek silver ID ( hemidrachm ? )
« on: May 30, 2023, 02:49:22 pm »
Hello !

Please help to ID this coin

11 mm, 2.29 g

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Tom

Offline Diego N

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Re: Greek silver ID ( hemidrachm ? )
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2023, 02:26:35 am »
Hi!
Sorry I cannot provide a better answer but similar coins are being offered as diobols (Milesian std.) from an uncertain mint in Caria, c. 5th century BC.

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Offline Anaximander

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Re: Greek silver ID ( hemidrachm ? )
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2023, 07:25:50 am »
Looks like this or this. SNG Ashmolean XI #335.

CARIA, Uncertain ('Mint D'). Circa 450-400 BC. AR Diobol (11.5mm, 2.20 g, 11h). Milesian standard. Forepart of bull right / Forepart of bull right within incuse square. Cf. Konuk, Coin M40–3; cf. SNG Ashmolean 335; cf. SNG Kayhan 973; BMC Ionia p. 352, 24 = Traité I 456 (Samos). Very rare.
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Re: Greek silver ID ( hemidrachm ? )
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2023, 11:50:12 am »
Looks like this or this. SNG Ashmolean XI #335.

CARIA, Uncertain ('Mint D'). Circa 450-400 BC. AR Diobol (11.5mm, 2.20 g, 11h). Milesian standard. Forepart of bull right / Forepart of bull right within incuse square. Cf. Konuk, Coin M40–3; cf. SNG Ashmolean 335; cf. SNG Kayhan 973; BMC Ionia p. 352, 24 = Traité I 456 (Samos). Very rare.
Yes, it is one of these silver coins from Caria from an unidentified mint, as Diego N already mentioned.

But all of the references you cite are onyl a "cf.", there is no exact match  :-\.
E.g. SNG Ashmolean XI, 335 is this coin: http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=1388 , clearly looking different.

What comes nearest to the coin here is your second link and these: http://hno.huma-num.fr/browse?idType=2318 (right picture but wrong weight  :-\)

So, there seems to be no ocurrence of the type here in the usual references  :-\.

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Altamura


 

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