2.8 gm, AE 16 mm obv: Helmeted head with 8 pointed star of Athena right rev: owl standing facing on palm, with wings spread I gather the dating can be done with more precision if this monogram is documented anywhere.
You might be interested in this thread, in which I discuss this coin and its dating. Mysia, Pergamon, 200-133 BC? 133-27 BC? Bronze Æ 15.7 mm, 3.55 g, 12 h. Obv: Head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet ornamented with star. Rev: AΘΗ-ΝΑΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ, owl standing facing on palm, with wings spread,TK monogram left and ΠΛ right. Refs: SNG Copenhagen 388 (same); c.f. SNG von Aulock 1375-6, BMC 197-199, SNG France 1920-2, SNG BN 1913-6 (various monograms).
Yes, your article was instrumental in me falling further down my own rabbit hole on this type. Not a bad thing? Anyway it's odd that there's so little clarity on the dates. Did you ever find any significance with the eight pointed star?
No. Like a Labrador retriever on a walk in the woods, I got distracted by other things and never went back to look more into it!
This explains why most of us, certainly I, will never make a significant contribution to our hobby. Too many rabbits; too many holes.
I have wrote a few pages on academia.edu ( under my name of John Arnold Nisbet) about the New Style but following Ashton and his work on Rhodian Bronze coinage and siege of Mithradates and the re-dating of the Roman era of Ephesos/Roman Asia minor by the late Jorge Muller I have linked the cistaphoric coins of Ephesos with Isiac symbols also with that event. And then generally base on an altered New Style where the Pontic badge( Star & 2/1 Crescent(s)) symbol as been replaced with a Headdress of Isis symbol. I have concluded that various Isiac symbols of around this time can be seen as a partisan badge of Roman support. For what ever reason stars are common on coins and are a sign of divinity on the Roman Elagabalus denerii. But occasionally have also on their own been connected with Mithridates. A theory for the beginning of the New Style is to celebrate the Athenian great Panathenia c 166 or 162 BC ( Julia Shear via Meadows).In the past I have linked the Priene Owl on Amphora bronzes with winning at the games and why not this? Also I have linked ( no evidence again) the owl on amphora type of Kalakte Sicily with an expression of the Greek koinon maybe to declare Greekness in the face of Roman dominance. enjoy
May I use this on my very own attribution? I am happy to cite your email address. Although it isn't definitive I am quite happy with how well you've summed up the controversy and like, you, I'll have to attribute my Pergamon owl with similar date-origin ambiguity.
I don't really have anything else to add, apart from this similar coin, from another city (Adramytion, ca. 140 km distance to Pergamon) GREECE, Annonymous Denomination: AE13, minted: Mysia, Adramytion; c300-200 BC Obv: Helmeted head of Athena right. Rev: ΑΔΡΑΜΥ (above) ΤΗΝΩΝ (below), Owl standing slightly right on thunderbolt, head facing, with wings spread; monogram to right (not visible; off-center) Weight: 2.41g; Ø:13mm Catalogue: SNG von Aulock 1053
Does the ΑΔΡΑΜΥ (above) ΤΗΝΩΝ (below) tell us it's from Adramytion or was it found there? I'm curious because of how similar this is to the pergamon owls.
Feel free to use the information but in the interest of privacy, I request you don't cite my email address or other identifying information. Thanks.
