May I Ask For Help In Identifying My First Coin?

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Neewom New Member Korea, Republic Of 2 Posts	Posted 03/13/2022 10:40 pm Hello! Recently, I became interested in collecting classic Greek coins, and I purchased my first collection a few days ago at Vcoins. https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/lo...Default.aspx This is the one I've ordered, and while waiting for it to arrive, I'm just trying to gather some pieces of information about it. As you can see in the link, the seller informed that this coin has the tag 'SNG Copenhagen 803' However, there was not so much information about this 'SNG Copenhagen 803' on the internet. Here are the pieces of information I've found. My coin has some siblings from the same city. https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/gre...GCop_802.jpg https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/gre...GCop_804.jpg https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/gre...a/BMC_17.jpg But the problem is that my coin is much heavier than those. The seller mentioned that the diameter of my coin is 20mm, the weight is 6.35g. (They also mentioned '12h'. Can anyone tell me what this means?) Which means that it is about twice bigger, 5 times heavier than the siblings (It seems like their diameter is 11~12mm and weight about 1.2g) https://www.ma-shops.com/zufahl/item.php?id=11452 The only SNG Copenhagen 803 I could find on the web, but I'm doubting about it. It is not as big and heavy as mine. Can anyone tell me some information about my coin or any page describing it? Thank you for reading, and have a nice day! Report this Post to the Staff

Kamnaskires Pillar of the Community United States 7066 Posts	Posted 03/13/2022 11:32 pm The 12H refers to the due axis. Not sure if this link will work: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/n...y=Die%20axis SNG Copenhagen refers to volumes of the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum covering, I believe, coins from The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals in the Danish National Museum. 803 would be the reference number of the variety of your coin from that corpus. Your coin is a larger and heavier denomination than the ones you spotted. Here's one almost, but not quite, as large as yours. Probably the same denomination as yours, but the lettering (magistrate?) is different. https://cNGCoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=218585 Edited by Kamnaskires 03/13/2022 11:50 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Neewom New Member Korea, Republic Of 2 Posts	Posted 03/14/2022 04:28 am @Bob L I appreciate your help! I totally forgot what I'm collecting is once 'money' haha I didn't think about the weight and size of the coin may relate to denomination! Once again, Thank you for your help!!! Report this Post to the Staff
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iulius Valued Member Bulgaria 141 Posts	Posted 03/14/2022 2:57 pm https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1860175 A bigger coin https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=l...=5189&lot=61 - and heavier siblings from the same city Edited by iulius 03/14/2022 3:08 pm Report this Post to the Staff
mikev50 Pillar of the Community United States 1870 Posts	Posted 03/14/2022 4:58 pm heres a good website----coinarchives.com----IONIA. Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Circa 400-350 BC. AE (Bronze, 13 mm, 2.14 g, 1 h), Iophon, magistrate. Laureate head of Apollo to left. Rev. MAΓ / [IO]ΦΩN Forepart of a bull to right. BMC -. CNG E-Auction 210 (2009), 40. SNG Copenhagen -. SNG von Aulock -. A beautiful example with a very attractive olive green patina. Slightly rough, otherwise, about extremely fine. From the collection of Dr. A. Drakul, ex Auctiones GmbH E-Auction 13, 17 February 2013, 25 and from the collections of R. Müller, Münzen & Medaillen GmbH 30, 28 May 2009, 502 and F. Popken, Künker 133, 11 October 2007, 7576. Starting price: 25 CHF Report this Post to the Staff
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