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Valued Member
United States
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Hi :) Hoping for any assistance leading me in the right direction on this piece. It is thick and heavy and I wonder if perhaps it is a weight? Sized about 28mm & 33.5g. Thank you!   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The figure standing left with bow and club, I have seen somewhere before
My intial thoughts her would be Kushan or Byzantine; it might be a weight as you suggested.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Edited by paralyse
07/10/2017 01:30 am
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Valued Member
Australia
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Hi there,
I do not think it is a Kushan coin. Kushan coins have Baktrian text. I have the ANS catalogue on Kushan coins and can double check when I get home later but I am fairly confident it is not Kushan as I have not seen one like this.
It does not have greek writing so I do not think it would be byzantine.
I am stumped.
Hopefully someone else can offer you assistance.
Where did you find it?
Peter
Edited by greekandromancoins
07/10/2017 04:14 am
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Moderator
 United States
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Interesting piece, at first glance it does look Kushan but a closer look at the figure doesn't match. The piece does appear to have age. I have no idea what the HHC means and I spent the last 45 minutes going through a list of ancient scripts with no luck. It would be interesting to find out if the script is a language at all. Maybe someone here as seen it before and can help. Otherwise I would check with the local collages in your are to see if they have some one that has knowledge in obscure scripts.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7066 Posts |
Possibly an Ebusus issue with Bes facing. I'll poke around a bit.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7066 Posts |
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Valued Member
 United States
128 Posts |
yes! Thank you so much!! That is definitely the right direction. Thank you too to all the others who tried to find this! It came to me as an unknown from a dealer in the UK. Searching for "HHC" mostly led me into listings for another dealer who I think marks their general auctions that way. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I am continually amazed by the knowledge of our members :)
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United States
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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United States
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Bob, you continue to amaze me. I would have never gotten it.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
7066 Posts |
Actually I recognized this one immediately, Ron. Why? Because I am student at CCF Institute. I remembered the type from a post a couple years back.
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Moderator
United States
23731 Posts |
You have a good memory, I have a hard time remembering past last week.   |
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Valued Member
United States
128 Posts |
I have been doing some googling based on this awesome ID and I came across some interesting (I think) info. This coin seems to be a monster for the series. I couldn't find anything close to it in weight. I also found that these type of coins were often imitated and both legit and imitation pieces were the most common types of coins found at Pompeii. I wonder if this coin is perhaps a contemporary imitation of Rome production...? Here is a link - https://books.google.com/books?id=Q...ge&q&f=false |
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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Fantasy coin...
A "denarius" from Ebusus; Romans never struck denarius in Ibiza as they struck in the Iberian Peninsule...
The Iberian denarius were struck in the republican age when the Island of Ebusus was an ally of Carthage (and coining under the carthaginian monetary system), after the defeat of carthago the island was personal property of the emperor and only struck copper with the traditional carthaginian monetary system...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I'm sorry to say that I must agree with Athalbert. Two clones can be found here: Catalogo de Moneda Iberica Falsa. http://www.denarios.org/falsas/index.htmIbericas del Norte/Ebusus....at the bottom of the page. |
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Valued Member
United States
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Thank you! That does look just like it at the "falsas" site. That's a great site and I will look through it more and bookmark it.
I don't recall what I paid for this piece but I'm certain it wasn't much. It's a neat piece regardless and I enjoyed learning more about the series.
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Posted 07/10/2017 04:11 am
