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Another Ancient Greek Coin For Identification

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 Posted 03/10/2020  12:05 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add jman965 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hello again. I have on more for the wizards on this forum.

Coin is approx 27mm. Obverse side, the letters are all worn off except for a C. Portrait is of a bearded guy / deity.

Reverse side - left side starts with VAV and the part on the right of the figure reads ANO'Pi'O'Lambda'ITN I thought maybe from Anotolia but I can't find anything online that matches it. I did find some examples with a bust of Athena or Hermes that resembles the figure on the reverse, but it's hard to tell which matches closer.

Thanks again!
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 Posted 03/10/2020  06:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Novicius to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It appears to be Septimius Severus - the CE at one o'clock fits. The reverse looks like Tyche or Homonia holding a cornucopia. Similar to, but not exactly like, the one on Wildwinds below.

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/...r_BMC_12.jpg
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I agree with the reading of the right side of the reverse as ANOΠOΛITΩ[N], which would imply it's from some place called ...anopolis.

The obvious guess is [MAPKI]ANOΠOΛITΩ[N] for Marcianopolis; I think I can kind of see the PKI, though those letters aren't as clear as the following ones.


EDIT: in retrospect, Hadrianopolis was just as obvious of a guess, but it is Marcianopolis, magistrate Aurelius Gallus (Y AY ΓAΛΛOY).

I wasn't able to find a match on Wildwinds, but I didn't check all the possibilities, and of course the type could just not be there.
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This appears to be the coin, though the description is incorrect. It isn't Herakles standing left, strangling the Nemean lion.

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3571100
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OK, I admit, that's a match. I skipped past this type on Wildwinds because I couldn't see the object at the lower left on the OP coin, but of course it's there, just very weakly struck.

(Wildwinds describes the reverse as "Tyche standing left with rudder and cornucopiae", which sounds much more correct that anything involving lions.)
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I'm surprised that such an error appears to have gone unnoticed.

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Awesome - thanks again guys - you nailed it!
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