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Pillar of the Community
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  Cleaned up.  Looked everywhere I can think. Are those letters under the horses feet or is it jumping over a fence? Who is it?
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Pillar of the Community
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Cleaned up nicely. Those are letters, probably a magistrates name. Good luck with it, I'm not familiar with greek stuff.
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Pillar of the Community
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That's a very interesting coin and impressive clean-up.
Looks Macedonian. The reverse legend (upper) looks like BASILOU or something similar. Not sure about under the horse's legs, probably letters rather than fence, my guess is that it spells the ruler's name. Try looking through each Macedonian king on wildwinds.
The obverse is puzzling though. Almost looks like Roma from a Republican coin.
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11/10/2013 4:30 pm
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Interesting looking coin. The helmet looks like it has wings on it. Could it be Mercury?
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Pillar of the Community
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Ah, found it on wildwinds. Philip V of Macedon.  Quote:
Macedonian Kingdom, Philip V, 220-179 BC, AE 16mm.
Head of Hero Perseus right wearing helmet with griffin's head.
BASILEWS FILIPPOU above and below horse prancing right
SNG Cop 1239.
aVF $32.00
With permission of anythinganywhere.com, June 2010.
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nice coin, nice clean up..........I looked through Macedonian coins earlier and couldnt find it, the helmeted obverse threw me, well done!
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TIF you continue to amaze me with your research skills.
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Pillar of the Community
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Pillar of the Community
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 Echizento-- It is because of you and your Guess the Emperor thread. I cannot tell you how many hours I spent digging for those coins when I knew absolutely nothing about ancients. It was a great way to jumpstart my learning, so thanks. And now I spend at least an hour or two per day browsing upcoming auctions, vcoins, CNG archives, etc. I think I've come a long way in the last what, six months?  [Edit: I lied. I spend 4-8 hours a day looking at coins. Might need a 12 step program soon]Edited by ThisIsFun
11/10/2013 5:12 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks TIF, wish I had checked in an hour ago. I am going crosseyed.
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Pillar of the Community
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Oh, this was part of that lot of semi-cleaned Macedonians you just bought, right?
I am SO lusting after that shield. If you decide to sell it...
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Pillar of the Community
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I will keep you in mind TIF, still gloating over it :)
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Oh to have that much time to browse coin sites......I wish I did..I have about 8000 coins to clean and sell and I need to live to be 800 until I can get shot of most of them, still at least if I do, the loose change in my pocket now will be ancient so I wont have to go out metal detecting so that'll save me time!!
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Pillar of the Community
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YOC, you have 125 posts in 4 days... one would also think you have time on your hands  |
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