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Old Bronze/Copper coin ?

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bodrum9
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 Posted 09/09/2008  10:08 am Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add bodrum9 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message

Hi folks, I'm new to this so I hope I get it right !
I have this old coin I found in my garden in Bodrum,Turkey. (Scottish expat)Could anyone please tell me what age, who it is and where it's from as I have tried researching it with no success whatsoever.
I hope the pictures are Ok but if you need more I will gladly post more.
The coin is 18mm at it's widest. Thank you very much in advance
P.s. Oh and if you know how much it's worth I would like to know. Thanks again. Steve.


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09/10/2008 1:38 pm
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 Posted 09/09/2008  11:27 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wwhitman to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Can't see the picture.
You have to log onto the platform - so we can't see.
If picture less the 100K you can post it here, else upload to host system like flickr
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 Posted 09/10/2008  11:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add bodrum9 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Please look above for new photo's ! Thanks again.
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09/10/2008 12:02 pm
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I can't tell too much from the pics, but it looks Greek, rather than Roman or Byzantine, and bronze. There's a female head (or perhaps Apollo) on the obverse, and something I can't quite make out on the reverse, perhaps a bird in a tree, with Greek text underneath it - I can see a letter phi.

Bodrum is, of course, the modern Turkish name for the ancient Greek city of Halikarnassos. In ancient Greek times, bronze coins rarely travelled far from where they were struck. So the logical place to start searching is through the coins of Halikarnassos; if we can't find it there, we start working out way out from there.
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 Posted 09/11/2008  08:42 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add bodrum9 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks Sap, I found this listing and wondered what you think ?
http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/galle...hp?album=204
Oh and is there anyway I can post larger pictures on my links that you know of ?
Thanks again !
YIPEE ! I FOUND IT !
You guys are the top gods at this game and many thanks ! Here is the link to the pictures >>>> http://www.asiaminorcoins.com/galle...um=219&pos=3
A great wee site !
I didn't even think of what was on my own doorstep ! I live 500mtrs from Myndos Gate in Bodrum.
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09/11/2008 08:53 am
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 Posted 09/12/2008  04:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yep, that's it.

See? It didn't travel too far from it's origin after all. Only a few kilometres away!

Here's an example on CoinArchives of the same type of coin, sold in Germany in 2005.

That is indeed a good reference site for coins of ancient Turkey - I've never seen it before. I've got an "unknown Cilician silver coin", and coins very much like it are listed there - that's the first time I've seen them referenced anywhere.
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