Posted 11/24/2022 02:43 am
I believe it's from Tarsus, at the time the city was known as "Antiocheia ad Kydnum", circa 170 BC. On the obverse is a cornucopia; around it, there is (very worn on your coin) an inscription, in Greek, naming the city, and (importantly) in the fields on either side of the cornucopia, two monograms: one roughly "M" shaped, the other "theta-epsilon". On your coin, the inscription is mostly invisible but you can clearly see these two symbols. On the reverse, there is no inscription, just the Club of Hercules inside a wreath.
The third coin down on this Wildwinds page is an exact match for your coin, in somewhat better condition.
A nice find. Tarsus was the hometown of the Apostle Paul; as such, this coin can qualify as a "biblical coin", even though it was struck over a century before Paul was born there. Still, it's from a city mentioned int he Bible, so you can double the price.
And, for the budding coin identifiers reading this thread, I found the crucial help to this ID by going to ACsearch.info and typing "Greek bronze cornucopia club" into the search bar.
The third coin down on this Wildwinds page is an exact match for your coin, in somewhat better condition.
A nice find. Tarsus was the hometown of the Apostle Paul; as such, this coin can qualify as a "biblical coin", even though it was struck over a century before Paul was born there. Still, it's from a city mentioned int he Bible, so you can double the price.
And, for the budding coin identifiers reading this thread, I found the crucial help to this ID by going to ACsearch.info and typing "Greek bronze cornucopia club" into the search bar.
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