4 Unknown Greeks - #3

Do I have the reverse oriented correctly? Is that a bunch of grapes? Are the letters Greek or Phoenician? Any help is appreciated.

9 mm, 0.5g

 

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I believe you have oriented properly and I believe those are grapes.

 

Perhaps:

MYSIA: Perperene
MYSIA, Perperene, 4th century BC. AE 10. Laureate head of Apollo right / ΠΕΡ, grape bunch with vines.
SNG France 2310; M. B. Barth - J. Stauber, Die Münzen von Perperene, Epigraphica Anatolica 23 (1994), 3a.

 

Here is mine from there, but mine appears to be a slightly different variety:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-135635

 

Thanks for your help, Nicholas. Pererene certainly looks like a possibility. There seem to be a lot of stylistic variation. This one, listed on Wildwinds as Stauber 18, has a head on the obverse that appears similar to mine, although the reverse looks very different:

I may have to list this as MYSIA, Perperene [?]

 

I am just going to toss out my common grape reverse for comparisons


Thrace Maroneia 146 BC Dionysos AE 17 Grapes Narthex