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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4523391, member: 82322&quot;]Lines can be a big mystery.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1120597[/ATTACH] </p><p>Macedonian Kingdom, Alexander III The Great, 336 - 323 BC, AE 18, 4.44 g</p><p>Obverse: modified/defaced into a pattern of lines (was head of Herakles right, in lion skin headdress)</p><p>Reverse: [A]LEXAND[ROU], club above legend, bow in case below</p><p><br /></p><p>The FORVM cataloger believed this was a an Amphipolis issue, Price 326. I am not certain.</p><p><br /></p><p>People have told me they believe it is a gaming token.&nbsp; I have no clue.&nbsp; The ancient &quot;love tokens&quot; seem to be very rare.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ve only found a few references to them. In the academic literature I found a short piece from <i>Schweizer Muenzblatter</i> vol 19 1969 p. 14, “Amulettarige Uberarbeitung eines spatromischen Follis” and a three page article in English by Brooks Emmons Levy, “Another Converted Roman Coin?” (<i>Schweizer Munzblatter</i> vol. 32 (1982), p. 40.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first article features a Roman <i>follis</i>, the second a 30mm provincial from Antioch featuring Mên.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ken Steiglitz illustrates a Ptolemaic coin with similar modifications <a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/mutilated.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/mutilated.html" rel="nofollow">on his web site</a>. I also found a Bosporan coin with similar mutilation in an old CNG catalog. The coin pictured above comes <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?zpg=8532" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?zpg=8532" rel="nofollow">from FORVM</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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