I expect I could do it, but I am drinking and playing videogames, so my hands are full. Hopefully someone will know who this guy is at 16mm and 6.3g cheers
Looks like Herkles obverse, Apollo reverse. A quick stroll through ACsearch suggests this is from Lydia, Sardes, although I don't see one with that magistrate listed (Aristokles, if I'm reading the reverse correctly). Similar to: LYDIA, Sardes. Circa 133 BC-AD 14. Æ (15mm, 7.74 g, 12h). Menoitos, magistrate. Laureate bust of a Herakles right, with lion's skin tied around neck / Apollo standing left, holding crow an laurel branch; MHN–OITOΣ downward to lft; all within laurel wreath. Johnston 226. VF, earthen black patina. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3293774
thank you very much...I have a few more I will spread out over the evenings as I am drinking and videogaming.
I just got a similar one of these this month - mine has the simpler one-line legend to the right without a magistrate: It is very chunky: Lydia, Sardes Æ 14 Autonomous Issue (c. 200-133 B.C.) Laureate head of youthful Herakles right, in lionskin / ΣAΡΔIANΩN Apollo standing left, holding raven and laurel branch, monogram in left field, all in laurel wreath. SNG Cop. 484-489 var. (mono.). (6.63 grams / 14 mm) Attribution Note: I could not find an exact match for this monogram; also, later (14-37 A.D.) issue is noted with bearded Herakles - this one is bearded or flan irregularities?
