Twin Heads and Athena

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  1. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    Mysia, Lampsakos
    AR tetrobol
    15 x 13mm, 2.1 g, 11h
    4th-3rd centuries BC
    Obv.: Janiform female heads with circular earring.
    Rev.: AAM-YA; Helmeted head of Athena right.
    Note: The AAM- (I used a Y as it looks like a 3 point candlestick and I can’t do these letters or symbols)
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  3. GinoLR

    GinoLR Well-Known Member

    The legend is ΛΑΜ / ΨΑ ( Λαμψα(κηνῶν) ) but written in boustrophedon: the first line from left to right, the 2nd line from right to left, etc.
     
  4. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Collecting for 49 years Moderator

  5. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Collecting for 49 years Moderator

    I guess with yours being a tetrobol, it must have been roughly twice the size of that diobol I once had?
     
  6. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan Collecting for 49 years Moderator

    Boustrophedon just became my new vocabulary word for the day. Thanks. :)
     
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  8. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    MALE & FEMALE HEADS

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    Islands of Troas, Tenedos,
    late 5th-early 4th century BCE.
    AR Obol (8mm, 0.60g, 3h).
    O/ Janiform head, female on l., male on r.
    R/ Labrys within incuse square.
    SNG Ashmolean 1235; HGC 6, 387.
    VF
     
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  9. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    TWO MALE HEADS

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    RR
    M Furius LF Philus
    AR Denarius
    119 BCE
    Janus
    Trophy Carnyx
    Cr 281-1 Sear 156
     
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  10. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

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    RR
    Anon AR Heavy Denarius -Quadrigatus - Didrachm (10 As)
    225-215 BCE
    Incuse Roma Janus
    Jupiter in Quadriga
    Craw 28-3 Sear 31
     
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  11. Alegandron

    Alegandron "ΤΩΙ ΚΡΑΤΙΣΤΩΙ..." ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ, June 323 BCE

    POMPEY JANUS

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    RImp Pompey 42-38 BC AE As Janus Prow Magnus S 1394 Cr 479-1


    JANUS AS

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    RR Anon AE As after 211 BC Janus I Prow Cr 56-2 Sear 627
     
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