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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNCLEANED...refresh=true

I have had a look around and can't find anything....
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 Posted 04/28/2014  12:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not enough detail to say what it is.
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Looks a bit like a lion's head on the obverse
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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 Get a Link to this Reply
Looks Thracian or maybe Cimmerian Bosphorus. Tried going through Plant for a reverse type?
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Thanks jmc, where do I find Plant?
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Anybody know where to find Plant?
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just left of jimmy page..

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he's the only plant I can think of...seriously.
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"Greek Coin Types and Their Identification", by Richard Plant. FORVM has copies for $42.
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Thanks Sap, ordered from Amazon.
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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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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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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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anybody?
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