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Anyone Know What This Coin Is?

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 Posted 04/28/2014  12:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
Looks a bit like a lion's head on the obverse
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 Posted 04/28/2014  12:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list
I thought so too.
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 Posted 04/28/2014  12:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jcmworld to your friends list
Looks Thracian or maybe Cimmerian Bosphorus. Tried going through Plant for a reverse type?
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 Posted 04/28/2014  12:33 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
Thanks jmc, where do I find Plant?
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 Posted 04/28/2014  4:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
Anybody know where to find Plant?
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 Posted 04/28/2014  5:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrsmat71 to your friends list
just left of jimmy page..

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he's the only plant I can think of...seriously.
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 Posted 04/28/2014  6:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list
"Greek Coin Types and Their Identification", by Richard Plant. FORVM has copies for $42.
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 Posted 04/28/2014  6:30 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
Thanks Sap, ordered from Amazon.
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 Posted 04/30/2014  1:26 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jcmworld to your friends list
Sorryno response, been busy. You can also look on Abebooks there are usually copies floating around there. Kolbe gets them in occasionally too.
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 Posted 04/30/2014  1:31 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
Plant book arrived this morning, looks very handy but not for this coin.
Seller describes one side as possible chariot, hard to see with it not in hand, I would have thought that Roman would have been the first stop, but it doesn't look roman.
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 Posted 05/08/2014  3:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
Coin arrived and I cleaned it up a little. It is not a chariot. 17mm 3.21g

It appears to be an eagle standing on something, thunderbolt? I found something similar on acsearch and need an opinion or two, or three.

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The obverse is really hard to see, barely a ghost like figure, but very distinctive

I might have found something very similar on acsearch. It might be quite exciting, you can bring me back down to earth!
http://www.acsearch.info/ext_image.html?id=711809
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Greek Kings of Sophene, Armenia. Arsames II Æ17. Circa 230 BC Diademed and draped bust left, wearing flat-topped tiara / Eagle standing right on thunderbolt. F. Kovacs, 'Sophene: New Coins and Comments,' Armenian Numismatic Journal, Series II, vol. 6/4 (2010), p. 97, 3. 3.49g, 17mm, 10h. Very Fine. Extremely Rare.
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 Posted 05/09/2014  04:58 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pishpash to your friends list
anybody?
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 Posted 05/09/2014  10:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add chrsmat71 to your friends list
i thought it may be a peacock? but no clue...sorry.
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