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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;furryfrog02, post: 4581304, member: 41219&quot;]Happy Father&#039;s Day to all those dad&#039;s who read this,</p><p><br /></p><p>FFIVN and I received this coin in the mail a few days ago from Europe from the most generous [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER] who held a contest back in April. [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] won the coin but was kind enough to pass it on to FFIVN and I to work on together and add to our collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>With all of the COVID insanity, it took forever to make its way to us, but I gotta say, it was worth the wait! </p><p><br /></p><p>I had looked a few things up over the week while FFIVN did his online classes. Hopefully to help him along since, while we are pretty good at identifying Roman, some provincials, and to a lesser extent, Chinese cash coins, anything &quot;Greek&quot; is well, Greek to us. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well today being Father&#039;s Day, what better than to spend some time figuring this one out? </p><p><br /></p><p>We started out with trying to figure out what the images were. The obverse was fairly simple since I just purchased a Pontos, Amisos with the Gorgon head on the obverse and Nike on the reverse. We were able to guess that that is what our coin had, along with some wings on either side.&nbsp; The reverse was a bit tougher, but also gave us the best lead. We could make out the bird on the left (we thought it was an owl), assumed that it was a female riding a horse (we were wrong there) in the center, and underneath we were able to make out &quot;ΣΟΛΕΩΝ&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>With those clues, we started our CoinTalk searches, Google-fu, and everything else we could thing of. The best we found was this coin on <a href="https://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=324&amp;pid=383#top_display_media" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.asiaminorcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=324&amp;pid=383#top_display_media" rel="nofollow">asiaminorcoins.com</a> and then after searching around some more we decided that this is what our coin is. All told, it took us about an hour of good honest searching and I think we did a good job. </p><p><br /></p><p>It was a fun time spent reading and learning with my oldest son and I really appreciate the kindness of [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER] and [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] for the coin and giving us the opportunity to spend some quality time together. </p><p><br /></p><p>Without further ado, here is the coin and our attribution. If we made any mistakes, please let us know. We are always striving to learn. </p><p><br /></p><p>If any of you received coins for Father&#039;s Day, feel free to post them here. Or other examples of our coin, or anything else relevant (or not!)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Soloi-Pompeiopolis (Cilcia)</p><p>AE27 11.89g</p><p>2nd-1st centuries BC</p><p>Obverse: Winged gorgon facing in center of aegis.</p><p>Reverse: Aphrodite, turreted, riding on galloping bull right, which she holds by the horns; eagle to left, ΣΟΛΕΩΝ below, monogram above and to left of Aphrodite.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1134765[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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