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Another ID For Greek Coin

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 Posted 05/29/2018  7:10 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Coinnewbie3 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
All I know is its greek

Could it be Kingdom of Pontus?/
Athena? Nike/

Amisos?

17mm
6.68gm
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 Posted 05/29/2018  10:41 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add echizento to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
That would be a good guess.
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 Posted 05/31/2018  01:27 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinnewbie3 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I know but could it be something else?
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I know but could it be something else?


There are lots of things it could be - that's the challenge. The Athena part is obvious. The i.d. of the standing figure less so. So many Greek states/poleis issued bronzes that fit the bill. For example, the Thessalian League issued Athena/Demeter issues of about this same size.

I'd venture a guess (likely wrong), based on the particular profile of Athena here, as well as the depiction of the Corinthian helmet (with its sharp 90 degree turn at the back) and the shape of the base of the neck, as well as the thick coin fabric, that perhaps it could be an issue of Seleukos II Kallinikos. Nike on these issues was rendered with one leg bent slightly (contrapposto), and the front leg sometimes sort of caught in the gown's fabric - essentially amounting to three vertical engraved lines like on the OP coin in the leg area. (see first link below) Some variants of these that I've seen, on less tight and worn flans than the OP coin, were around 19mm - so they're in the ballpark.

Anyway, just speculation without much to go on.

Some comparisons of the obverses:
Another-ID-For-Greek-Coin

And some links:
https://cNGCoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=133820
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/gree...ell_1016.jpg
https://cNGCoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=195071


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 Posted 05/31/2018  7:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinnewbie3 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah I imagine it would be a tough one. Thank you for your effort
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