The coins of Alexandria Troas feature Marsyas facing either left or right, on or off a pedestal. [ATTACH] Alexandria Troas, Time of Gallienus...
There were only three named gorgons. Reid is almost certainly correct that we are unlikely to see Medusa's two sisters on coins. They weren't...
This type is near the top of my want list. I have yet to pull the trigger. Like you I have a fourree. Your fourree is a gem compared to mine....
You are talking about Gianpaolo Italiano’s Faciem Orribilem: La Medusa Sulla Monetazione Greca (2001). It has many pictures but they are printed...
Cossura or Melita?
[ATTACH] The Catillon II hoard has a large web site including a blog with 77 posts by the guys who processed it. They discuss the coins and the...
eBay used to be an auction site. It is now mostly a fixed-price site. For example, there are 868 Greek coins listed for auction plus 19,835 “Buy...
This issue almost never has a good strike. TIF's is one of the few I have seen with a good strike. Mine has no reverse at all! [ATTACH] L....
I'm in. I love the reverse type!
Here is a tiny coin I haven't been able to attribute: [ATTACH] Uncertain Asia Minor. 1.0g 10.5mm Obv: Winged hippocamp, forelegs raised, facing...
The obverse is a die match for a Peter Rosa replica printed in Wayne Sayles' _Classical Deception_ page 137. This doesn't mean yours is fake;...
Here's one from beyond the frontier. My smallest "Roman" coin: [ATTACH] AE 8mm 0.50g. Helena imitative? (The portrait could also be Fausta.)
I don't own any coins of C. Papirius Turdus but I do have a Roman provincial coin you might enjoy. [ATTACH] Pisidia, Tityassos, circa 2nd...
A specimen in the British Museum has the date [ATTACH] (73). This example can be found here. If we take the last two symbols to indicate "year"...
I always read this as "year symbol"+10+10+1+1+1+1+1+1. Perhaps I did it wrong before and it is 146? Because of this post I am trying to redo...
Here is a coin of Marathos. I believe the year is 26, which corresponds to 233 BC. Would you agree? [ATTACH]Phonecia, Marathos, dated Year 26...
That Oado is nice. I have often wanted one myself. I wonder what the buyer will think when he stumbles on this thread many years from now. I...
It is not unpublished. It was mis-published. In my collection notes I describe them in this format: BMC Lycia, Pamphlia, and Pisidia p. 21,...
I think George Hill got it wrong in 1897. Few people are studying the coinage of Assos today. This is because of the difficulty of delivering a...
There is one in BMC Lycia, Pamphlia, and Pisidia p. 21, #100, plate 6 #4 attributed to Lycia.
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