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Saw this going cheap - just ovber £3 and I'm sure ill learn more than £3 worth of history from it. Im thinking its a greek coin, hopefully a halved drachm, but I'm not familiar with the type. Anyoen recognise it?   |
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Could it be this one? http://www.acsearch.info/ext_image.html?id=540178 Description The Prospero Collection of Ancient Greek Coins. KINGDOM OF PAEONIA. Patraos (c.340-315 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 12.72g,. Head of Apollo facing to right, wearing a laurel-wreath. Rev. Î ATPAOY , helmeted warrior on horseback to right, trampling over and spearing a fallen enemy warrior below, who defends himself with a shield and a spear (AMNG III, pl. 37, 15-17; Paeonian Hoard (Sotheby's, 16 April 1969), 97-100; Jameson 1021 (this coin)). Attractive cabinet tone, extremely fine. This coin published in ‘Collection R. Jameson, Monnaies Grècques Antiques' (Paris, 1913-1932), 1021, illustrated on pl. LIII. Ex Charvet de Beauvais Collection, Rollin & Feuardent, Paris, 30 April â€" 2 May 1903, lot 9 Ex Woodward Collection Ex Jameson Collection, 1021 Ex Bank Leu AG, Auction 36, Zurich, 7 & 8 May 1985, lot 118 US$ 1,200 |
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Close, but I think it might be too big and mine has no space for the writing. Ill look at the variations of it, see if it came in drachm form.
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Is the silver disappearing on the coin? I mean is the core of that coin different to the outer? Maybe it's Roman.
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Pish, the horse looks right (maybe differently angled spear) but I couldnt find a bare headed bust to match - the hair is completely different.
Im pretty sure its solid silver, seller made no indication otherwise.
And I've never seen a roman in that style, so I've ruled it out. The helment looks a bit like the german helmets from WW1. Maybe if I can work out what the helmet represents Ill be able to trace the source of the coin.
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I was just wondering why the metals a different colour on the outside to the core.
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The six-pointed asterisk at 12 o'clock on the obverse is not a Greek letter. It is either: - the symbol the Romans occasionally used on the denarius after they revalued it from 10 to 16 asses, in which case this is a Roman Republic denarius. - the northeastern Celtiberian letter "Bo", in which case this is a Celtiberian coin (from pre-Roman or early Roman Spain). The curly hair looks "Spanish style" to me and I know the horse-and-rider motif was popular in the Spanish cities; Wildwinds example. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Ben
Enter
bo silver horse spear
into acsearch and you get three examples.
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