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Message:: [QUOTE="Spaniard, post: 8239171, member: 90248"][USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER].....A nice interesting coin!...No axes here but do have spear, shield, bow and arrow and a pile of arms of which I'm still unsure of what's being depicted?Mysia, Pergamon . Circa 2nd Century BC. AE 18mm (5.31 gm).Obv.: Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian Egret helmet.Rev.: ΑΘΗΝΑΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ (Athénas Nicéphore), trophy, consisting of crested helmet and cuirass with arms below; monogram to the right.SNG von Aulock 1374; SNG France 1884. VF.[ATTACH=full]1449987[/ATTACH] Thessalian League. Around 197-150 BC. AE Trichalcon (7.64 gm, 19mm). Hippolo(chos), magistrates.Obverse: laureate head of Apollo right.Reverse: ΘEΣΣA ΛΩN (THESSALON) in two lines, Athena Itonia striding right, hurling spear held in her right hand, shield on her left arm; ΙΠΠ-ΟΛΟ (IPOLLO magistrates name) over spear and A-PI across central field.BCD Thessaly II, 900.3; Rogers 21.SNG Copenhagen 315.[ATTACH=full]1449989[/ATTACH] Aeolis, Kyme, c. 165-90 BC. Æ (16mm, 3.84g, 12h). Zoilos, magistrate.Obverse...Draped bust of Artemis right, hair in sphendone, quiver and bow over shoulder.Reverse...Single-handled oenoechoe (Kyme's cup) with KY above (Kyme), flanked either side by laurel branches.Magistrates name left to right across central field Z-Ω / I-Λ / O-Σ..Zoilos.SNG München 507-9; SNG Copenhagen 108; SNG von Aulock 1642.[ATTACH=full]1449990[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]