We have two
types with the only difference that one has a
star added on both sides:
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3500436the other has not:
https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2141295I do not believe that the "thing" without the
star is a comet tail alone
, so it most probably is a
palm branch with a
tainia.
There can be found
palm branches with a
tainia on coins from
Eusebeia in
Cappadocia (where these horse-palm-star-coins perhaps can be located):
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85025405https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8502541khttps://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6005347… Why would a star be "crowned" with a taenia? The palm-leaf? Really? Looks like anything to me! ...
Why should the identity of the "thing" change by adding the
star? The
horse is
still a
horse, the
tainia is
still a
tainia, why should the
palm branch transform into something different?
… If correctly identified then this blows the comet theory and Ramsey's archeao-astronimical work out of the water., ...
Probably it does, at least partially
.
In the 90's when Ramsey wrote
his article, only a few of these starred coins have been known, those without stars probably not at all. This has dramatically changed within the last five years or so (together with the prices for these coins
).
Ramsey differentiated two varieties, one with letters around what he calls the tail and one without. Because the specimens he
had at hand haven't been
well centered, he misinterpreted the
tainia as letters and missed that on
his second variety in fact a little
bit of the
tainia still can be seen. The variants without the
star aren't mentioned at all.
… and it's mention in "The poison king". ...
This is im my eyes more sensationalist entertainment than science
, I don't take it too seriously.
These coin
types are
still one of the more enigmatic ones
.
Regards
Altamura