GREEK, Massalia, Narbonensis (Gaul)

Obol, .6 gm, 10 mm, 200-121 BC, Sear GC 72
Obv: Anepigraphic with probable head of a youthful Apollo, left.
Rev: Wheel with four spokes. M and A in lower two.

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Tiathena

[Feb 19, 2005 at 06:16 AM]

Thanks for sharing this one! Great to see at this scale, the one in Sear, GC 72, being so tiny and difficult to see detail. Really a beautiful coin! (I personally think Apollo most-probable).

Massanutten

[Feb 19, 2005 at 09:17 AM]

Thanks, Tia...and with my meathook excuses for hands, it was the devil itself to set up on the scanner! Unbelievably tiny...no wonder the type was eventually abandoned!!

Federico Morando

[Mar 03, 2005 at 05:53 PM]

Nice coin! Considering the weight and following Georges Depeyrot (Les Monnaies Hellénistiques de Marseilles) an alternative attribution could be to the period 215-200 B.C. (type 18 of Depeyrot) or more probably to the period 200-121 B.C. (type 31). In any case, the type was eventually abandoned, but only after at least two or three century of almost identical coinage Wink

The correct dating of these coins is the most debated subject in the numismatic of Marseilles (Massalia)

GREEK, Massalia, Narbonensis (Gaul)

Obol, .6 gm, 10 mm, 200-121 BC, Sear GC 72 Obv: Anepigraphic with probable head of a youthful Apollo, left. Rev: Wheel with four spokes. M and A in lower two.

Obol, .6 gm, 10 mm, 200-121 BC, Sear GC 72
Obv: Anepigraphic with probable head of a youthful Apollo, left.
Rev: Wheel with four spokes. M and A in lower two.