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Gert:
This coin got buried rather quickly in the ID-help section, so I thought I post it here. Ed Flinn replied that Nysa Skythopolis was the closest he could think of, but I doubt that the coin is from there.

Coin in 19mm in diameter. The obverse shows someone with a tiara, I think. The reverse has a seated figure and the Greek letters SKYTH are legible.

All thoughts are welcome.

Regards
Gert

slokind:
Just a possiblilty (not my area of competence), but a glance at Munsterberg's Beamtennamen
http://snible.org/coins/library/muensterberg/m.html#?
turned up five mints where a magistrate named Skythes appears: Tomis, Naxus, Ephesus, Magnesia (Ionia), Miletos.
Maybe searching in Head's Historia Numorum under that name and those places could help narrow it down.
That's assuming that it isn't a SKYTH place name, after all.
The ethnic reference makes it a very common name; there is, for instance, a Greek vase painter in Athens c. 500 BC whose name (he signs his work) was Skythes, the Scythian.  We also have, c. 550, a painter named Lydos, the Lydian.
Pat Lawrence

Can't anyone do better than my shot in the dark?  P.L.

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