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Title: Very interesting coins, but what?
Post by: Mandelbaum on April 29, 2021, 07:45:49 am
Hey,

i have this coins since long weeks on my table. I was reading on revers IE-RA, but later i saw it could be KE-RA. went all to me know resources. but nothing.

have you an idea?


Thank you
Ariel
Title: Re: Very interesting coins, but what?
Post by: Mandelbaum on April 29, 2021, 07:51:44 am
sorry, and obverse
Title: Re: Very interesting coins, but what?
Post by: Altamura on April 29, 2021, 11:12:23 am
I don't have an exact match  :-\, but a good guess  :).

There is a coin type from Keraia (also called Keraitai) in Pisidia, described in Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer, "Kleinasiatische Münzen", Vienna 1901, on page 375 as number 4:
https://archive.org/details/kleinasiatischem02imho/page/374/mode/2up
and depicted on plate XIII as number 14:
https://archive.org/details/kleinasiatischem02imho/page/n291/mode/2up

It shows a shield on the obverse and a club on the reverse with the legend K-E.

The coin here seems stylistically to be a bit later, but the iconography is the same and the legend KE-PA would fit.

So I believe that the coin here is from Keraia in Pisidia  :).

Regards

Altamura

Title: Re: Very interesting coins, but what?
Post by: Mandelbaum on April 29, 2021, 02:57:53 pm
Thank you very much @altamura