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Offline solon

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Interesting Kassander Unit!
« on: June 30, 2022, 08:37:21 am »

AE 21mm.    6.50g.

Obv: Helmeted head of Athena left
Rev: Bow and quiver above club,  :Greek_Delta: to left.

There are a few rare examples with an X on the right end of the club, but this specimen has a delta on the left end of the club.
Does anyone have a reference for this specimen?

Thank you in advance for your help and time.

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Re: Interesting Kassander Unit!
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2022, 09:22:25 am »
An article about the bronze coinage of Kassander is Chrysanthos Valassiadis, "A contribution to Cassander’s bronze coinage", in " XIII Congreso Internacional de Numismática, Madrid 2003", Madrid 2005, pp. 405-413: https://www.academia.edu/2006533/A_contribution_to_Cassanders_bronze_coinage

With respect to this larger denomination (there is also a smaller one) you find on page 409 "As far as the existence of controlmarks is concerned, there is a unique combination of two letters and one monogram on the large denomination."
In fact you always have a delta, a xi and below a monogram, but in most cases you cannot see them all together on a single coin.

Here two examples where you can see (at least in parts) all these signs:
https://media.biddr.com/media/img/auction_lots/1305/1383604_1600365200.l.jpg
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4537668

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Re: Interesting Kassander Unit!
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2022, 09:33:42 am »

Thank you for your help Altamura.

 

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