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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2359623, member: 56859&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t recognize it but that anchor certainly looks like Apollonia Pontika.&nbsp; Unless someone else comes up with a reference, the next step would be to look through relevant online reference books.</p><p><br /></p><p>When faced with such a puzzle, I go to CNG, find a coin I think is similar or possibly related (in this case, various unusual types of Apollonia Pontika bronzes), and see which reference CNG cites.&nbsp; The reference will be abbreviated (in <a href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=19884" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=19884" rel="nofollow">the example I&#039;m using</a> the abbreviation is &quot;Imhoof-Blumer, MG pg. 237, 47&quot;) ; then go to the Bibliography tab on CNG&#039;s website and find the full title of the book (F. Imhoof-Blumer. <b><i>Monnaies Grecques</i>.</b> Paris. 1883.) --&gt; highlight/right-click/copy and drop into a Google Search, hope for a full text online hit (<a href="https://books.google.co.vi/books?id=anlLAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PP1&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=F.+Imhoof-Blumer.+Monnaies+Grecques&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=IeSyRfcSOx&amp;sig=4TflSeQDtFinGOJ_WD1bmHa58M0&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=F.%20Imhoof-Blumer.%20Monnaies%20Grecques&amp;f=false" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.co.vi/books?id=anlLAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PP1&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=F.+Imhoof-Blumer.+Monnaies+Grecques&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=IeSyRfcSOx&amp;sig=4TflSeQDtFinGOJ_WD1bmHa58M0&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=F.%20Imhoof-Blumer.%20Monnaies%20Grecques&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow">here&#039;s one of this book</a>; I have not browsed it to see if your coin is there).</p><p><br /></p><p>Foreign language books can be daunting but it is still possible to use them if you don&#039;t read that language.&nbsp; Pick a few key words for your coin, translate to the appropriate language, and use that to help search the text.&nbsp; If you find a possible hit, copy that entire portion of text and see what Google Translate says (often not very accurate but sometimes good enough).&nbsp; Picture plates of course are a universal language <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Edit:&nbsp; the book I linked is not the CNG source cited, it is an earlier and less comprehensive work by Imhoof-Blumer.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure the full book is online somewhere and will post it when I find it.&nbsp; I vaguely recall that Dane (of Catbikes and Wildwinds) translated an Imhoof-Blumer book or books to English.&nbsp; I&#039;ll see if I can find that too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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