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Eagles On The Coin..id Help Please

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 Posted 08/22/2007  01:28 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add happyprince to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Can you help me with the id of this coin and its value?.by the way...how can I learn how to read Greek letters on the coins?thnx...

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 Posted 08/22/2007  02:20 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think this one is Latin, not Greek. I believe I can read "CAESAN" on the left side of the reverse, and "TIOCHCO" on the right, giving "CAES ANTIOCH CO" as the whole reverse legend. Though there were many cities called "Antioch", the most likely seems to be Pisidian Antioch, southwest Turkey (not the Syrian Antioch-ad-Orontes).

A pewrusal through the Wildwinds page for Pisidian Antioch shows many coins with this design, from numerous emperors: a vexillum or legionary flag, flanked by two Roman legionary standards. Here's an example, with slightly different reverse legend:
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Sorry, but I can't read enough of the obverse to narrow down the emperor on your coin for you.
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 Posted 08/22/2007  08:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
As for the second part of your question, the Greek alphabet hasn't changed much in the last 2300 years, though on some coins earlier than this some different letters can be found, and some other letters can take on different shapes.

The main problem in translating characters on coins (in any alphabet) is where a coin is so worn or corroded the characters are blurred, or where the original die engraver was so clumsy, lazy or illiterate that the letters were confused and ambiguous to start with. For instance, on these coins of Pisidian Antioch (both yours and the one from Wildwinds I showed above), the die engraver lazily forgot to put the cross-strokes in the "A"s, making them look like upside-down "V"s or lambdas (Greek "L"s).

The best way to learn is experience - look at lots and lots of nice, clear pictures of uncorroded, nicely-struck coins, so you know what the lettering is "supposed to look like" for a particular time and place. The Sear catalogues are excellent for this purpose, providing an overview of the sorts off lettering and inscriptions that ought to appear on Greek, Roman and Roman Provincial coins.
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 Posted 08/24/2007  5:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add valutarick to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I think this is a Barbaric copy of an roman coin.. writing errors sometimes give that indication...
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The coin is a roman povinical. The reverse appears to depict several legion standards, sorry I can't tell which legions hard to make out the detail from the image.
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