Tiny Greek AE - Hermes with Caduceus / Chelys - Help Please!

I bought this one because it was cute and I thought it would be a chinch to identify.

Nope. I am stumped; after ransacking acsearch, etc., I am not coming up with a Hermes / chelys (or lyre) combination.



It is tiny (1.89 grams / 11 x 10 mm):


Unknown Greek Æ 11
(c. ?)
Head of Hermes right, wearing petasos, winged kerykeion (caduceus) over shoulder / Greek inscription? around chelys (lyre made with tortoise shell)
(1.89 grams / 11 x 10 mm)

The closest I came up with is too big and not quite right otherwise - a countermarked issue from Bithynia:



https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2942929

Any help enormously appreciated!

 

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..neat coin...i think you hit it on the nose with ID...

 

This one is closer I think, the obol version
https://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotv...&Lot=122&Val=775a8e221d4383122f5622c5701e4c6a

 

Thanks for that tip. Except for it being silver, it is very close. I checked Wildwinds and acsearch and there are some Hermes/lyre AE types for Sestos, but not a match (they lack the caduceus, inscription is different, bust facing wrong way, etc.)

https://www.acsearch.info/search.ht...de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&currency=usd&order=0


That's the closest I've come, and I appreciate the help!

 

Yeah, I'm becoming an expert at "unattributed." If you need anything officially certified as "unattributed," just ask me.

 

I didn't find an exact match either but I think the coin is from Sestos, possibly unpublished.
The coin I found (sold very recently) is also "possibly" Sestos and unpublished anywhere else.
The bronze versions I found lack the caduceus and have Hermes facing left on Wildwinds
https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/thrace/sestos/t.html

 

Hmmm... mine is not the same


Sicily Menainon Hermes in petasos, kerykeion caduceus, two pellets Hexas

 

I ran into some of these interesting Sicily types when I was trolling around acsearch, etc. Kind of a similar theme, but no matches.

Nice coin, by the way. I like that jaunty short-brimmed petasos he's wearing.

 

I think that is an Office Petasos, instead of the standard Farmer’s Petasos...

 

..hahaha!><