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Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3

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Joe Sermarini:
Menorah Seal - What is on the reverse (anything)? #3 (JD98656) 4.123g, 15.6mm

Is that something on the reverse? If so, what?

Other information? Refs.?  (I have not tried to research this yet.)

Thanks for any help you can provide. 

v-drome:
Hi, Joe.  This is the closest that I have.  Probably not much help but...

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=96375
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=112172

Joe Sermarini:
Hmm, I would expect, if it is anything at all, it wouldn't be a graven image, especially anything pagan.

Gert:
Hi Joe,
These 3 Menorah seals all seem to be double-sided, but I can't make sense of the imagery on the rev for any of them. References are scarce. Still lists 2 examples in his thesis on Roman seals. The catalogue of the Vossen collection by Bill Dalzell and myself, which has just appeared, has 2 Menorah seals (nos 181-182), both with blank reverses. And there are a couple to be found in the regular sales databases of course.
Regards
Gert

Joe Sermarini:
Thanks Gert.

I just ordered your book, added a Boersema-Dalzell page to NumisWiki and added the book to the various applicable reference lists throughout the website. I am looking forward to getting it!

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