Posted 11/27/2025 5:18 pm
It is not from Judaea.
The object depicted on the obverse is an "agonistic urn", a prize won at the Pythian Games and which cities frequently boasted of winning via their coinages. Here's a list of various city-coinages depicting an agonistic urn: https://www.coinarchives.com/a/resu...ch=agonistic
I think I can see "NIKAIEWN", starting at about 2 o'clock on the reverse; the city of Nicaea frequently put the agonistic urn on their coins. I can't identify the obverse portrait.
The object depicted on the obverse is an "agonistic urn", a prize won at the Pythian Games and which cities frequently boasted of winning via their coinages. Here's a list of various city-coinages depicting an agonistic urn: https://www.coinarchives.com/a/resu...ch=agonistic
I think I can see "NIKAIEWN", starting at about 2 o'clock on the reverse; the city of Nicaea frequently put the agonistic urn on their coins. I can't identify the obverse portrait.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
