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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 24826680, member: 87809"]Etenna minted coins with scenes from what was probably a local founding myth, like on this coin, which was also in a lot of mixed Roman and Greek coins. It's off-center, though the details are clear. It came with a flip from Forum Ancient Coins, GB84985 No. 596:</p><p><br /></p><p>Æ 16 (or Chalkous?)</p><p>15.6 mm, 2.896 g, 45 degrees</p><p>Pisidia, Etenna (Sirt, Antalya Province, Turkey), 100 - 1 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>BMC 1-3; SNG von Aulock 5017; von Aulock Pisidien II,425 ff; Imhoof KM 8-9; SNG Copenhagen 148-149; Waddington 3723; SNG BnF 1532; Paris 391-392; GCV (Sear) 5459</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Anepigraphic. Two male figures running side-by-side, naked except for mantles over shoulders, one holding a harpa (sickle-shaped knife), the other brandishing a bipennis (double-headed axe). Border of dots</p><p>Rev.: <i>ET-EN</i>, nymph in long dress standing to r., looking back shielding herself from a serpent with head erect for attack uncoiling before her at r. Oenochoe in lower l. field. Border of dots.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture courtesy Forum Ancient Coins</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589706[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share your coins from Etenna or anything relevant<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 24826680, member: 87809"]Etenna minted coins with scenes from what was probably a local founding myth, like on this coin, which was also in a lot of mixed Roman and Greek coins. It's off-center, though the details are clear. It came with a flip from Forum Ancient Coins, GB84985 No. 596: Æ 16 (or Chalkous?) 15.6 mm, 2.896 g, 45 degrees Pisidia, Etenna (Sirt, Antalya Province, Turkey), 100 - 1 BC BMC 1-3; SNG von Aulock 5017; von Aulock Pisidien II,425 ff; Imhoof KM 8-9; SNG Copenhagen 148-149; Waddington 3723; SNG BnF 1532; Paris 391-392; GCV (Sear) 5459 Ob.: Anepigraphic. Two male figures running side-by-side, naked except for mantles over shoulders, one holding a harpa (sickle-shaped knife), the other brandishing a bipennis (double-headed axe). Border of dots Rev.: [I]ET-EN[/I], nymph in long dress standing to r., looking back shielding herself from a serpent with head erect for attack uncoiling before her at r. Oenochoe in lower l. field. Border of dots. Picture courtesy Forum Ancient Coins [ATTACH=full]1589706[/ATTACH] Please share your coins from Etenna or anything relevant:)[/QUOTE]
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