Posted 05/14/2024 8:03 pm
Many thanks, Bob. Once again I think you have hit the nail square on the head. 
I got hung up on Ares and didn't think of Dionysus, and as you pointed out, there is that distinctive curl. I don't think I'd have gotten that in a month of Sundays. It was one of a group of five "unknown" coins from a dealer I had previously bought from, who said that he didn't have the time or patience to spend a lot of time identifying them. As it turns out they have all been rather uncommon so far.
I bought the group mainly because of the scallop shell coin, which after a nudge by @mylimebug has been attributed as Calabria, Tarentum. Unit (Circa 275-200 BC). scallop shell / kithara. The smallest at 9mm was from Alexandria in Troas (circa 95-85 BC), lyre / AΛEΞ, tripod. Another at 17mm has been identified as from Bargylia in Caria. 2nd-1st centuries BC. Pegasos flying right / Stag standing right.
The final coin appears to be one of the Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt, Zeus laureate / eagle standing left on thunderbolt. There does appear to be BAΣIΛEΩΣ on the right hand side of the reverse, but no characteristic dimple in the centre of either the obverse or reverse. Still chasing this one up.
Thanks again, Bob, and thanks for the links. Much obliged.
I got hung up on Ares and didn't think of Dionysus, and as you pointed out, there is that distinctive curl. I don't think I'd have gotten that in a month of Sundays. It was one of a group of five "unknown" coins from a dealer I had previously bought from, who said that he didn't have the time or patience to spend a lot of time identifying them. As it turns out they have all been rather uncommon so far.I bought the group mainly because of the scallop shell coin, which after a nudge by @mylimebug has been attributed as Calabria, Tarentum. Unit (Circa 275-200 BC). scallop shell / kithara. The smallest at 9mm was from Alexandria in Troas (circa 95-85 BC), lyre / AΛEΞ, tripod. Another at 17mm has been identified as from Bargylia in Caria. 2nd-1st centuries BC. Pegasos flying right / Stag standing right.
The final coin appears to be one of the Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt, Zeus laureate / eagle standing left on thunderbolt. There does appear to be BAΣIΛEΩΣ on the right hand side of the reverse, but no characteristic dimple in the centre of either the obverse or reverse. Still chasing this one up.
Thanks again, Bob, and thanks for the links. Much obliged.
Edited by Novicius
05/14/2024 8:32 pm
05/14/2024 8:32 pm
