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Please Help... I Have No Idea What Kind Of Coin This Could Be

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This will hopefully get relocated to Unidentified, but if you rotate the first picture 180 degrees, it looks like two animal figures on a banner or between two staves/standards, with (Greek?) lettering to both sides, and an exergue line with lettering below. The obverse suggests a bearded bust with neckline, long hair, and possibly a ribbon left of the hair?

A coin version of a Rorshach ink blot?

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Please give the diameter and the weight-it really helps.
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Nice find. It's late ancient Greek, probably Seleucid. Obverse is head of Zeus, reverse is a tripod altar (upside down). I see Greek on either side but can only make out a few letters.
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Thanks everyone for all the help and to think I was thinking it was jade or something due to the green hue and probably Chinese... lol . With that being said my next question is :
Is this even valuable being it's completely unledgable?
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I suspect this is an issue from Dyrrhachium, Illyria.
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obverse is head of Zeus, reverse is a tripod altar (upside down). I see Greek on either side but can only make out a few letters.

Just goes to show ... it was just a blur to me, even after putting on my glasses!
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