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Lyubomir H

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Request for help for indentification
« on: May 14, 2022, 05:52:43 am »
Dears,
There is new coin in my collection and I am wondering is it Roman BC. Kindly request for some help. Thanks!

Lyubomir H

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Re: Request for help for indentification
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2022, 05:54:39 am »
Dears,
There is new coin in my collection and I am wondering is it Roman BC. Kindly request for some help. Thanks

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Re: Request for help for indentification
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2022, 06:24:00 am »
Coins usually have two sides ;), weight and size would be interesting too.

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Re: Request for help for indentification
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2022, 07:08:52 am »

The legend reads: ΑΘΗΝΑ, so not Roman.

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Lyubomir H

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Re: Request for help for indentification
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2022, 10:56:35 am »
Diameter is around 15-16 mm and weight it is around 4 grams.



The legend reads: ΑΘΗΝΑ, so not Roman.

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Re: Request for help for indentification
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2022, 11:16:36 am »
The reverse looks quite strange, is there any depiction at all? Perhaps it is some sort of modern souvenir?

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Re: Request for help for indentification
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2022, 01:00:16 pm »
Looks like glue.


Who knows, maybe there are others for Zeus, Apollo, Aphrodite.... possibly glued on a cardboard  ("The big collection of greek gods" or something like that), or jewellery......


The name "Athena" on a coin is in any case very unusual, with only a few examples, e.g. from Cyzicus. (but that one is completely different)


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Re: Request for help for indentification
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2022, 12:10:42 pm »
Hello

Or maybe this is how you have to look at this reverse ? , I m not sure of the letters ?

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Re: Request for help for indentification
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2022, 04:05:40 pm »
I really do not see the traces you see--but of course I am looking at a flat photograph.  If you want to find out what is really on the reverse, I think you need to clean it.

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Re: Request for help for indentification
« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2022, 11:48:40 pm »
I really do not see the traces you see--but of course I am looking at a flat photograph.  If you want to find out what is really on the reverse, I think you need to clean it.

This is not my coin, yes, Lubomir H Has to polish it , I only suggested whad might be on the reverse , because this is how I associate some details that I noticed , and they arrange the bust in such a rim .

 

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