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Offline zoser

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Any chance for this thiny provincial coin?
« on: July 22, 2021, 04:41:48 pm »
Ae 15 2,10gr
Athena on Anverse

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Re: Any chance for this thiny provincial coin?
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2021, 12:29:19 am »
Dear Zoser and Board,
 
No matches were found on RPC Online, Wildwinds, Isegrim, AC Search, or the online BnF and ANS databases, but I can clearly read ΤΗΜΝ - [Є]ΙΤ[ΩΝ] on the reverse, so I feel fairly confident that your coin hails from Temnus in AeolisAthena is a common motif on this city's Greek and Roman provincial coinage, although this particular obverse bust might be the first recorded instance on the latter.  I can't be more certain without consulting the many Turkish SNGs that have been published in recent years.

In any event, I hope this helps a little.


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Re: Any chance for this thiny provincial coin?
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2021, 07:33:55 pm »
I believe that the reverse is Aphrodite standing left, holding an apple. The only place I have seen this type listed is in Schindel's work on coins excavated from the "Hanghaus 2 Wohneinheit 6" in Ephesos, as one of two coins of Temnus found there. Unfortunately there is no image in the copies that I have (the actual book of all the finds of pottery, marble, building material, statues, coins etc. and the plates costs over 280 Euro!). The description (translated into English) is
Autonomous Issue
Temnus
28.  AE. 2,22 g. 7 h. 14 mm. (Plate 217, M28)
Obv: Bust of Athena right, wearing helmet and with aegis.
Rev: THMN–EITWN, Aphrodite standing left, holding apple and hem of robe.
SNG Cop 4, 274 var. (Style, obv. type, rev. image)
Repository: Efes Müzesi, No. 222/24/83
Found in lower storey in the plaster of the dividing wall 1S, 2nd June 1983

So if it IS Aphrodite, a reference is Efes Müzesi 222/24/83, or Schindel (Hanghaus 2) 28.
I will prepare it for wildwinds and add it to the Isegrim xls list.

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Re: Any chance for this thiny provincial coin?
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2021, 04:59:30 am »
... this type listed is in Schindel's work on coins excavated from the "Hanghaus 2 Wohneinheit 6" in Ephesos, as one of two coins of Temnus found there. Unfortunately there is no image in the copies that I have ...
You find all three volumes (the third is the one with the plates) downloadable as pdf files here:
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33401
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33400
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29401
(analogously for the "Wohneinheit 7" via the same homepage).

The picture of number 28 on plate 217 seems to be a match  :) :
https://library.oapen.org/viewer/web/viewer.html?file=/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/29401/1000554.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y#page=224&zoom=auto,-46,1135
(it takes a bit to load  :-\).

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Re: Any chance for this thiny provincial coin?
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2021, 08:32:53 am »
Thanks for the links !! I did search around a bit yesterday to see if I could find the plates but only found the page to the sale of the book on the Austrian publisher's page.
So I was correct with Schindel 28 :-)

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Re: Any chance for this thiny provincial coin?
« Reply #5 on: August 27, 2021, 05:18:40 pm »
Thanks so much to all you!, Feel free to add it to Wildwinds or wherever you need.
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