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My First Greek Coin..

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 Posted 10/23/2012  6:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list
Very nice coin, congrats.
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 Posted 10/23/2012  6:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrsmat71 to your friends list
very cool coin eng! I dig that reverse!
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 Posted 10/23/2012  7:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Doucet to your friends list
I think on the right hand side it could be two Greek letters, ΦΙ, Phi Iota.

On the left? maybe a torch? Dolphin?

Above...ΘΟΥΡΙΩΝ

Maybe you can match it here:

http://www.acsearch.info/search.htm...c=&a=&l=#404

On the obv., Scylla is probably on the helmet.

It's a cool coin. Glad you got a Greek.
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 Posted 10/23/2012  7:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Eng5858 to your friends list


Doucet, thanks for the help, Scylla is that a snake person on the helmet, if so yes kinda worn, don't see a torch, but on the Rev. under the Bull, looks like a bird in flight...seems like a little worn all over..
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 Posted 10/23/2012  7:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dionysos to your friends list
Did not find a perfect match, but it seems like a scarcer type. In exergue is an owl, flanked [probably] by ΕΥ ΦΡ.

Nice coin
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 Posted 10/23/2012  7:28 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add stevex6 to your friends list
Nice => I "love" your coin ...

Yah, I hear ya => the "small" part is kind of a let-down ... oh, and I must admit that I can only go "awesome" if I pull-out the ol' magnifying-glass!!

"However", if you can get around the lousy visible thingy, the fact that these coins have such awesome detail on such small flans is what these babies are all about ...

=> ahhhhhwwwayyyayay => I "love" these archaic, yet small coins ... these coins are "the original coins" ... all other coins grew-up knowing these coins as their mentors => these lil' small archaic coins are the "good ones" ... the others, are the other coins!!

.... oh, I can hardly wait for dougsmit =>



=> oh, and by the way, I have a whole "bunch" of full-size Greek coins ... you'll eventually find your comfort-zone ... but "yes" 10 mm is a wee coin!! (that's a finger-nail)

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10/23/2012 7:34 pm
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 Posted 10/23/2012  7:52 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Eng5858 to your friends list


Thanks for your comments, will get a larger Greek coin next time.... ..
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 Posted 10/23/2012  8:01 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dionysos to your friends list
Here's a similar one (without reverse legend)

http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=131436
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 Posted 10/23/2012  8:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add stevex6 to your friends list
yummy

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 Posted 10/23/2012  8:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Ancientnoob to your friends list
Lucania, Eng! I love it! I always found the Greeks of Italy very interesting, I am envious of that acquisition.
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 Posted 10/23/2012  8:38 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Doucet to your friends list

Quote:
In exergue is an owl, flanked [probably] by ΕΥ ΦΡ.


good eye Dionysos
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 Posted 10/23/2012  9:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Nothus to your friends list
Great coin! It makes me want to start scrubbing all of my tiny uncleaneds to see if there are any Greek coins hiding in there.
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 Posted 10/23/2012  10:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DVCollector to your friends list
Very nice coin and details--congrats!
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 Posted 10/24/2012  01:02 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add TJsCoins to your friends list
Very nice! Congrats!
Cool portrait (like the head gear!) and of course the bull is cool!
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 Posted 10/24/2012  05:24 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dougsmit to your friends list
Looks good to me.
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