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I am stumped 15mm, 3.61 grams  Any pointers? thanks! Paul |
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Pillar of the Community
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It looks like a very stylized version of the Alexander III bronze.
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I agree Alexander III with Bow & Quiver reverse.
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I don't like the portrait, not that I am an expert but it doesn't look like any head of Heracles I have ever seen. The style of the bow and case looks wrong too to be an Alex III.
I am stumped what this coin could be, it is too different to be a fake yet too similar not to clearly be a reference to the type.
I thought maybe a Celtic imitative type, but the style seems off for that too.... hope someone can get to the bottom of it.
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I wanted to say Bosporus (they liked their bows and cases - I was seriously thinking Pantikapaion but the legend doesn't seem to fit), was surprised by your insistence on Alexander, then I noticed the (possible) lion skin.
Could probably still be Bosporus anyway, but I don't know of any Bosporan city that fits the readable legend (I'll have to check on Kwinto).
EDIT: Nothing on Kwinto, I might check the other Bosporan catalogues, but I still highly suspect it's Bosporus. (Wildwings lists the assorted Bosporan places under Thrace, IIRC.) And of course the lion skin (if it's even there) means Heracles, not Alexander.
Edited by january1may
11/03/2016 11:49 am
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The problem as I see it is that all of the coins of Alexander the Great that I see with a bow or a bow case ALSO have a club. As in BONK BONK. That design element is totally missing here. Still confused.
Paul
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GOT IT! I had been looking for bow case instead of quiver. Look at: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2436484Sicily, Hemilitron, Selinos, c. 415-409 BC AE (g 3,67 mm 15 h 3) Head of Herakles r., wearing lion skin linear border, Rv. Sigma;E, bow and quiver linear border. CNS I, n. 11 SNG Copenhagen - SNG ANS 716. Rare, green patina, high conservation and well centered, good extremely fine. |
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Looks like a match. Nice coin.
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Wow! Yes, looks like that's it. I would never have guessed Sicily, and I definitely would never have guessed 5th century BC  |
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The same coin, I believe, from a 2014 Roma Numismatics sale...Not sure how the attribution, provenance info, and supportive materials from the sale could have been lost so quickly.  . I guess it happens. I see also that it went unsold in that sale: https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?...&lot=1303024  Edited by Kamnaskires
11/03/2016 11:36 pm
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Well done, always nice to see a mystery solved.
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Wow. It is the same coin! That is pretty surprising.
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That it definitely is the same coin definitely does beg the question of how it could have lost its attribution and provenance so quickly. The first century is number one ! But the 5th Century BC is a very close second ....... ebay ? Edited by FVRIVS RVFVS
11/04/2016 10:23 am
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I had examined an area that I thought may have been something worth looking at. I believe 'someone' removed a small white strip ( maybe with a toothpick ) The coins are identical   |
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Posted 11/03/2016 07:32 am
