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Pillar of the Community
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The reverse might be a bit mangled, can't make it out.   |
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Is it possible to get a much larger image of the reverse? A preliminary guess is this one will stump me. :)
John
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The head looks similar to Tanit?
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but Tanit generally faces left?
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John I have emailed it to you. For some reason I can't get it small enough to post here. (I thought I had lost it, took me 2 hours to find, phew!)
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Ok, I looked... No idea on what it is. It does appear to have Artemis / Torch, and looks to be from either Ionia, Lydia or Phrygia, but I haven't been able to find it yet.
Best,
John
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I cannot see anything on the reverse apart from what looks like two fish fins....
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Pillar of the Community
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Could be wings but I can't make sense of it. Don't know whether it is the right way up.
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leaves, wings, fins? I think there may be something behind the bust too, maybe another bust, looks like she (whoever she is) is kissing someone.
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Pillar of the Community
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It looks like it was tooled/smoothed with a rough hand... the original devices may have looked very different.
Size and weight may also be helpful-- as always with Greek and Provincial coins.
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If you rotate the reverse 90 degrees counter clockwise it resembles a galley. It seems like I've seen these wing-like things somewhere, but I don't know. It does look pretty tooled to me as well.  |
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Yes, I thought Galley with sails, perhaps Phoenician?, but searches came up with nothing. i'd love to see what this coin is as I have spent quite alot of time looking. I guess when we can pos ID the female then we can search with more confidence. 'Trisk', sorry shortened for brevity...has suggested Artemis etc. but could be a random Nymph. the plot thickens.
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My internet searching is like this too....  ...  ..... .... .....   ... etc etc |
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Found some letters on the coin, lower right....  Not sure how this might help, any suggestions? |
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Posted 11/21/2013 3:33 pm
