hello, i have this coin but i don't know what it is, so please if someone knows what it is let me know. thanks. picture:
someone told me that its Antiochus bronze coin. it was found in the ground with some other other Jewish coins.
Do we agree that the side of his coin with the curving line is very close to the shape on a widow's mite? And now he's saying that is was found with a bunch of jewish coins, which mites are, IIRC. So "mite" this be a Antiochus-Maccabees coin for such a target population at least? No, I don't know what I'm talking about. Don't stamp my planchets too hard though, I just joined.
No, it may be a coin; perhaps it is probably a coin; but until it has been attributed all you know for sure is that it is a round metal object with a design on it, and it doesn't have the characteristics of a button.
Its not Jewish at all. Its a bronze half unit from the Kingdom of Macedonia from around the time of Alexander the Great, call it circa 330's. Likely from Amphipolis or Pella, but an exact reference would be required. The obverse shows a stylized shield and the reverse (which you displayed upside down) shows a plumed Macedonian helm. I feel useful!
The coin has a Macedonian shield on it. I cannot tell what the other side is supposed to be but there are a lot of coins with the Macedonian shield on it. I dont have the time to go through them all and try to figure out what the other side is...here are a few similar example to the shield on the coin...some minted in Macedonia, others by Seleusia: Macedonia Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochus I
Ardatirion is probably right...I thought the reverse looked like a anchor so I was leaning towards Syria and antiochus but if it is a helm it Macedonia I think...a variation of this coin: Alexander III ‘the Great’. 336-323 BC. Æ 1/2 Unit (4.07 g). Uncertain mint in Macedon. Struck circa 325-310 BC. Macedonian shield with bolts, Helm reverse.
