This is one of the coins of my father-in-law, that I didn't pay much attention to. Is it a trihemiobol of Selge in Pisidia, about 400 BC? I hope some of you are willing to help me. It's rather blackish silver, very small: 9-11 mm diameter, and the weight is 0.89 gr. Is that a Gorgon on the obverse, or Helios? and the goddess Helena on reverse? Thanks for helping. Correction: naturally, I meant Athena.
I was gonna say pretty sure that's Athena and then I found this one on ac search https://www.acsearch.info/search.ht...s=1&thesaurus=1&order=0¤cy=usd&company=
Thanks very much. I checked it on CoinArchives and found many like it, mostly considered obols. None is exactly the same style, but then, my pic is not quite clear. I will file it as Selge, obol, 4th cent BC.
There's some debate on the identity of the facing head. On some it looks like Helios, but on others it's unquestionably a Gorgon. I assume this is older? It has Athena with an eye facing the viewer, and the gorgon with a protruding tongue A charming later example, looking more like Helios. These usually have an astragalos behind Athena