If you are going to show 2 ancient coins, can't you use a background that is less distracting? One that dos not say United States Coins? How about a towel or plain piece of paper? Peace
I agree-- it could be a bronze of Myrina like this one. In the OP coin, the object to the right of the amphora does look like a kithara. The letters below the amphora are mostly worn but perhaps they could could spell Myrina (ΜΥ-PI). The obverse is very worn and rough-- hard to tell, but perhaps it is the laureate head of Apollo. It really begs the question though: why on earth did the author show pictures of this coin and the modern Indian coin shown in another thread? There's nothing exceptional about either, as far as I can tell. Both are in pretty bad condition too. Why do they appear in a book about US Coins? Did the author just think they were cool or valuable? Did he just want a few "old" coins in the book and these are the only ones he had? So strange .
That's pretty much what I was going on but the obverse made me wonder because it's so worn. Also I think OP just took pictures on a US coin book? I dunno.
I'm assuming @ranger120212 was just curious about the identity of these two non-US coins which mysteriously appear in a book about US coins, apparently with no explanation by the book's author. If I were browsing the US coin book and saw those coins, I'd wonder the same thing! Is the picture of a page in the Whitman "red book"? This is going to drive me nuts. Maybe I'll write Whitman and ask why they put pictures of these coins in a book about US coin values.
I don't think the pictures were in the book. Both photos show the same page of the book in the background. So Ranger 120212, it you're following this thread, can you provide us any background about these posts? A lot of us are curious.
LOL and Oh my. You're right. I'm very embarrassed And worried. What a crazy mistake to make! Early dementia?
Haha what's your problem? I was going through us coins earlier in the evening and had my red book open. I have a black desk and pictures don't show up well so the white pages in the book were the better option. Sorry for the confusion geez. As far as me thinking they were "cool or valuable" I had no idea thats why I posted them in a forum about ancient coins. To get the opinion of people who knew about them. I can't help they don't meet your standards for condition or exceptionalism. Im new to this and get a lot of help from the US coin and other forums and would have liked to have seen the same here. Guess not.
Hey, @ranger120212... I simply made a stupid mistake. I did not intend to disparage your question so please do not take offense At a glance it really looked like your coin was a photograph in the book and I thought it was like Whitman planted some easter eggs in the book
