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Offline Raymond

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Mystery Greek?
« on: February 15, 2007, 07:31:18 pm »
5g about 20mm.  From the obv, can't tell if it's a nymph, Athena, etc.  The rev might possibly be Victory advancing left with [ ]  :Greek_Pi:A :Greek_Pi_2: :Greek_Omega: :Greek_Pi_2: in front of it? To the right,  :GreeK_Sigma:T :Greek_Lambda:A?
I started by going through Forum's catalogue and the only selection criteria that I could use were Greek and bronze.  I'm so sick of looking at Ptolemaic coins!  I only made through 102 of 300+ pages.  On the other hand, it was an education in the beauty and variety of the Greek coins.
Nevertheless, help.
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Re: Mystery Greek?
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2007, 12:41:42 pm »
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Re: Mystery Greek?
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2007, 04:10:13 pm »
You're probably right with Thrace; I would say Mesembria with Athena Promachos on reverse.
I'm sorry i can't tell this for sure from your picture.
This is what i see:



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Re: Mystery Greek?
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2007, 07:04:41 pm »
That must be right.  Here's another, not so nice.  All of these are Hellenistic.
• 10 III 00 AE21.  Thrace, Mesembria (colony of Megara).  Sear 1677 (3-2 c. BC), larger than 1676 and with sigma in the legend instead of tau.  Female head to r.  Rev. Athena Alkidemos and MESAM  BRIANON.
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Re: Mystery Greek?
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2007, 09:27:45 pm »
Thank you so much for thinking about this coin.  I made it through another 100 Greeks of Forum's catalogue (sold + available) today...
I sense with your help, I got closer.
Question: the characters to the left of the standing figure (as I see it) are all lined up in a 90 degree angle, right? (As in, I would tilt the coin to have the figure's nose pointing straight down, and then I could read across the characters, left to right).  Is this the name of the magistrate?
I've attempted another scan (my 11 year-old son/assistant is not available) of the rev.
I thank all of you again for taking the time to help me in this research.
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Re: Mystery Greek?
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2007, 10:04:52 pm »
 
     I don’t know if this will lend anything whatsoever to anyone else, but on close inspection in side-by-side, it does seem to me too that, not surprisingly, Luigi has nailed it.
 

         
 
  Seems (to me at-least) the trace-outline of the shield is visible on Raymond’s coin, as well as the B (part of P) and upper part of the A – of B P I A N  :Greek_Omega: N.
 
                  Another example, from CA.*
     
 
   Raymond, yes – your orientation of the coin reverse is correct for the reading: which should read – M E  :GreeK_Sigma: A M – B P I A N  :Greek_Omega: N
  ( Mesembria – as Pat has shown above).
 
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Re: Mystery Greek?
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2007, 11:11:28 pm »
How extraordinary!  In hand, the similarity is more readily obvious.  I'm so impressed.  Thank you.  I really like the obv, it's hauntingly beautiful; the rev... well, mine's kind of a cross between a marionette and Terminator with 70's shoulder pads!
I see the writing! I was so off, and had five different combinations that I tried to match.... Ouf!
Thank you
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Re: Mystery Greek?
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2007, 11:28:03 pm »
 
      Ave Raymond!
 
   For whatever its worth – I agree entirely and, ‘hauntingly beautiful’ I think a most apt description.
  It really is..!
 
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