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Offline Samaritan

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help ID this provincial
« on: September 13, 2011, 07:28:08 pm »
This provincial has presented a mystery to me. The style is very crude and possibly barbaric. The obverse looks like Claudius but could be Tiberius or another. The galley type reverse is fairly common but I've looked at many provincial galley reverse types and can't find a match for this coin.

I can't make out the legend but it also may be in reverse or inverted given the style. It appears to read -  Iota, Upsilon, D, Omicron, Pi.

Help!

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Re: help ID this provincial
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2011, 03:37:28 am »

Type used in Phoenicia Tripolis.

Please give diameter and weight
for further identification.

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Re: help ID this provincial
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2011, 07:04:21 pm »
Thanks for the response. I have looked at a number of coins from Tripolis but haven't been able to find the coin. It's dimensions are 30mm and weight is 10.38g.

Any more clarity you can muster would be appreciated.

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Re: help ID this provincial
« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2011, 02:32:47 am »

Very light for that diameter, normally this large
bronzes weigh over twice that much.

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