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Posted 10/19/2008 08:17 am
#1 doesn't show a normal lion; it's got wings. It's either a griffin, or a sphinx, both winged lion-like beasts. The Griffin had a head of an eagle, the sphinx a human head. Unfortunately, this coin is too badly corroded for me to spot the difference.
Griffins were featured on the archaic coins of Abdera, in Thrace, and on the Greek island-state of Teos. The Sphinx is quite distinctively from Chios.
#2: the bulls head was common to many city-states throughout the ancient world. It's hard to know where to start looking.
I have to say, the bubbly, porous appearance of both these coins worries me. They've either been cleaned very harshly, or they're cast fakes.
Griffins were featured on the archaic coins of Abdera, in Thrace, and on the Greek island-state of Teos. The Sphinx is quite distinctively from Chios.
#2: the bulls head was common to many city-states throughout the ancient world. It's hard to know where to start looking.
I have to say, the bubbly, porous appearance of both these coins worries me. They've either been cleaned very harshly, or they're cast fakes.
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
. I saw bubbly and porous too, it is an amateur cleaning mistake already he said me I used lemon juice and sodium bicarbonat to clean the coins. 
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