Hello! I am wondering if someone can identify this coin for me. I bought it entirely unattributed. I take it to be bronze, and about 19 mm in diameter. On the obverse, I see a very hairy man's head, facing right, and he seems to have a nose that bends down just in time to make it on the flan. On the reverse, I thought I saw a lion's head with its mouth open, facing left. But I turned the coin until I came to the angle above. Here I seem to also see a very hairy man's head, facing right. Where I would expect a laurel wreath to be, I can very clearly make out one or two Greek letters, and I believe I can see one or two others as well. The following are possibilities: M - PH - I - T M - PS - I - T M - PH - P (i.e. pi) M - PS - P (i.e. pi) I really have no idea where this coin comes from, but I am sort of assuming that this coin belongs to the Hellenistic period (maybe Ptolemaic Egypt?). As you can see, I'm basically guessing rather wildly. Any help that anyone can give me would be most appreciated! Thank you very much!
ΜΦΙΠ so it's from Amphipolis, I don't know the exact type but I am sure you will find something in acsearch eg like this one https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1669389
Thank you very much, pprp! I saw your post late last night, and spent some time looking for Amphipolis coins on acsearch. There are thousands of them, but of the first few pages that I looked at, I couldn't see anything that was even close. (I tried the same search with "bronze" added, and there were only about 200--but nothing similar.) If you or anyone else have some ideas, if you could let me know, that would be great. In the meantime, I'll keep looking. I am also wondering about the Greek ΜΦΙΠ itself: could it be a countermark of some kind, rather than a part of the original coin?
