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Pillar of the Community
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Pish there are several spellings....
Try this...
artuquids
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks Noob, well past my bedtime, I will have a good look tomorrow.
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P.P. - I can't see a Centaur.
If the photo is the right way up, I think I see two combatants in close proximity to each other, - but what do I know?
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what's the size pish?
I don't see a centaur either, but I don't know what I see on that reverse. I would be surprised if it were artuquid, I would guess some type of roman provincial.
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Thanks guys. Promising that some cannot see the centaur. I don't want to identify the outline because one seen, you can't "un-see" it.
Measurements will have to wait as I have mislaid the coin!!! I will come back to this thread when I find it :(
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Pillar of the Community
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Found it in the first place I had looked. I am having one of those days...
4.27g 16mm
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Hi pishpash, When I first saw your coin I thought the obv. looked Iberian and I did see a centaur on the rev. I looked in Bugos and SNG.org, but nothing , today I was thumbing through pictures in my A. Heiss book and saw this coin (drawing) which is catagorized as: Indigetes, Emporiae, Imitations Gauloises (Gaul) Although not the same coin, and the Heiss example is silver, there are some interesting similarities. This maybe way out in left field, but I thought I'd tell you anyway.  |
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Thank you very much. It is certainly something to go on. I have a couple of coins that are only listed in silver, and I have bronze examples. It gives me a new direction to go in.
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O.K.!
NOW I see the Centaur of which you speak, but what is the large square (or rectangle) in the air above the beast's rump?
Edited by Topcat7
12/09/2014 02:11 am
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P.P. - The closest 'attribution' I have been able to come up with for your coins is . . . . . . Roman Republican Coins of a Student and his Mentor Triens circa 217-215, Æ 51.29 g. Diademed female head right; behind, four pellets. Rev. Hercules fighting centaur, holding his hair in l. hand and club in r.; before, four pellets. Sydenham 93. Crawford 39/1.  I hope this helps. |
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TC thanks. I have seen this coin before and although mine is different there are similarities. After Christmas I might put it back in soak and see if I can get more details.
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i finally see the centaur!
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All the examples of the coin that TC mentioned seem to be the same, no variations. I can see possibly one pellet on the obverse and possibly two on the reverse.
Chrsmat, now try and "un-see" the centaur!
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Reminds me of a line from a movie.... "It's a schooner!"
Edited by Ancientnoob
12/09/2014 10:14 pm
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