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Felipe C

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Greek Coin Identification!
« on: January 25, 2023, 07:08:43 pm »
Please, can someone help me identify this coin? I have it for 2 years but never found something similar, it was from a coin lot.

It is 11,2mm in diameter and weight 0,6g.

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Re: Greek Coin Identification!
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2023, 06:50:27 pm »
I’m stumped but I like it.

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Re: Greek Coin Identification!
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2023, 01:50:44 am »
Hi folks,

Since no one can identify it (yet), I will state the obvious.

The obverse looks like Athena or Mars.

The reverse looks like an anchor, or possibly a flower.

Hopefully, this will produce some leads.

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Re: Greek Coin Identification!
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2023, 03:28:45 am »
Quote from: Meepzorp on January 27, 2023, 01:50:44 am

The obverse looks like Athena or Mars.


There are a few coins with Athena and rose.

"Wrongly ?" attributed to Rhodes by the sellers, but without reference:
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6785466
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5166290

or this from Soloi-Pompeiopolis
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4895314


but none of them is a perfect match, so I'm not convinced


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Re: Greek Coin Identification!
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2023, 04:49:26 am »
... There are a few coins with Athena and rose. ...
These are all probably from Antioch on the Maeander, on this specimen you can read the legend: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4722026

But I have no better idea for the coin here.
There is a type from Seleucia on the Calycadnus resembling the coin here a bit: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85330039
but also no exact match, the plant looks too different >:(.

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Re: Greek Coin Identification!
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2023, 06:39:33 pm »
Hey guys, I send this same coin in some other forums. And I think someone got it right!

This is the link that he sent me:
https://www.coincommunity.com/go/link.asp?target=https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8474711

What you think?

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Re: Greek Coin Identification!
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2023, 07:02:16 pm »
Very interesting.  You should track down the paper that cites the reverse type.

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Re: Greek Coin Identification!
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2023, 01:44:44 am »
... What you think? ...
Hard to believe :-\. On your coin it clearly looks like a plant, not like cornucopiae.

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Re: Greek Coin Identification!
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2023, 01:46:38 am »
Here are plate XXIV coins 5-7 of the book:
Numismatique de la Terre Sainte; description des monnaies autonomes et impériales de la Palestine et de l'Arabie Pétrée
by Saulcy, Louis Félicien Joseph Caignart de, 1807-1880

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Re: Greek Coin Identification!
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2023, 07:40:47 am »
Turn it around, it could be a helmet or it could be an Egyptian crown.  That is the problem with coins so poorly preserved--endless ambiguity.

 

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