Hodgepodge

I'm a bit lat to this party but here are my Philip I Antioch coins


a lefty....


and a righty...

 

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For some reason I had it in my head that these were larger coins. I didn't realize they were itsy-bitsy.

 

yah, 11mm is pretty tiny

=> I love 'em big and I love 'em tiny

AEOLIS, Gryneion. Æ11
4th century BC
Diameter: 11 mm
Weight: 1.63 grams
Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo facing slightly left
Reverse: Mussel
Reference: SNG Ashmolean 1447–8; SNG Copenhagen 205–6

 

There seems to be two denominations of this type (or quality control was very lax) and the designs are different.

Mine is 17 mm and 3.7 gm. Apollo's portrait is facing almost straight on and the elements are rendered in a finer manner (finer meaning element size; I'm not disparaging your coin, Steve-O ). The city name is spelled out rather than abbreviated.


AEOLIS, Grynion (alt. spellings: Gryneion, Gyrnion, Grynium, others)
4th century BC
Æ 17 mm, 3.7 gm
Obi: laureate head of Apollo facing slightly left
Rev: ΓΥΡΝΗΩΝ; mussel shell
Ref: SNG Ashmolean 1445-6; SNG Copenhagen 202-4

 

Nice mussel, TIF

=> hey, we never noticed the size difference when you posted your mussel recently (I guess we'd need to see them "together" to see their differences, eh?)



Man, I'd love to have "both" types (big & small) ... too bad JA isn't selling the bigger version (maybe, next time)

 

Beautiful coin - I looked at examples of the larger denominations and there are some varieties with abbreviated names. You've got all those alternate spellings listed - it appears the confusion goes back to ancient times. Herodotus consistently spelled it ΓPY..., the minters consistently spelled it ΓYP...If you google Gyrneion you get coins, if you google Gryneion you get the city.

I discovered if you're looking for examples of the type in coin databases, best to search mussel (or Muschel or moule).

 

Nice new coins JA. My Phillip I.

Doug H.

 

The first of these 2 coins is a Potin Tetradrachm of Philip I that was struck in Alexandria. The second coin could well represent Philip I, but I'm not sure. It resembles the coin of JA whereby the reverse seems figuring Ares. Please post your comments.