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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24738895, member: 128351&quot;]This is a very worn coin :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582597[/ATTACH] Pisidia, Isinda (probably the modern village of Kişla, west of Antalya in Turkey), time of king Amyntas (36-25 BC). AE 17.5-19 mm, 3.97 g.</p><p>Obv.: Laureate head of Zeus, r.</p><p>Rev.: ΙΣΙΝ, rider with spear galloping, r.; beneath, serpent; in l. field, Z</p><p>RPC I, 3512g</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a series of bronze coins registered in the RPC database under nrs. 3512a to 3512t. All have the legend ΙΣΙΝ on exergue, and the numerals A (3512a) to KA (3512t). K seems to be missing. </p><p><br /></p><p>RPC knows two specimens of this coin, one from a public auction, another one from the British Museum collection. They have very different styles:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582598[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The British Museum specimen seems to be double die-linked with my specimen. So is another specimen found on Vcoins :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582599[/ATTACH]</p><p>3.68 g. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is a curious pair of dies... On the reverse the Σ and the N are retrograde, and on the obverse Zeus laureate has a bizarre hairstyle. Could it be seen as an imitation of the Roman denarii minted by the Calpurnii in 90 and 67 BC?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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