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Here's another coin that's mystifying me.   Sorry about the awful scans. It's copper, about 22mm diameter, weighs 4.38 g. It's a bit domed on the other side of the coin from the sheaf of arrows, as if the sheaf of arrows is a countermark - is it a countermark or part of the design, please ? It's larger than a lepton but smaller than a 2 lepta. I think the date is 1819, the 18 is clear, the 3rd digit less clear, and the last digit a guess. Any ideas as to the denomination, please ? When I was on holiday in Kefalonia a few years ago, the local museum had only a few coins - a lepton of 1821, and a 2 lepta and 30 lepta from the 1830s. Identified - moved to World Coins forum - Sap |
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Next one up, either an Obol KM# 32 or 2 Oboli KM# 33.
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Edited by Pertinax
09/02/2012 4:57 pm
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From the pic's posted I can see a sitting Britannia on one side I can't make out the other. It could be a counter stamped early Brit copper  |
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It's pretty certain that this is an Ionian, but nowhere can I find weights & dims for the Ionian coins and all I've got to hand is a lepton, 16 mm 1.98gr. If you've found a size reference for these coins I'd love to see it.
The arrows are part of the design on both the Lepta and Oboli.
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I'm only going by the illustrations in the KM catalogue 5th edition.
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The back seems to match a George III copper half penny...Britannia facing left date at bottom and BRITANNIA written around the top with all letters corresponint to the positions of those readable.
However a half penny is 29mm not 22mm...The Farthing must be around that diameter (I haven't got it measurements) and also had Britannia facing left, date below and BRITANNIA legend on the reverse around the early 1800's.
Ahh the explaination of why it looks like a Britih coin is found on wiki...
"The obol (plural oboli) was the currency of the Ionian Islands between 1819 and 1863. Until 1834, 1 obol = 4 lepta (singular lepton), after which 1 obol = 5 lepta. Throughout its existence, the obol was equal to a British half penny. The obol replaced a series of countermarked coins denominated in Turkish paras and copper gazete coins. The obol was issued by the British and was replaced by the Greek drachma when the Ionian Islands were given to Greece, at a rate of 1 drachma = 20 oboli."
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09/02/2012 5:56 pm
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Spot on alganbagerap, Love your work  The Brits controlled these Islands between 1815 and 1862. |
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Thanks very much, it was the false size of the illustration that deceived me.
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