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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3331401, member: 56859&quot;]Congrats!&nbsp; There were several bronze coins with silphium plants in that auction and one of them was a &quot;coin of opportunity&quot; for me as well <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; I had won an earlier coin and decided it needed a traveling companion so I looked ahead and saw the silphium bronzes.&nbsp; I picked up the lot before yours for what I think was a very low price (hammer 60 EUR, so with BP about 81 USD).&nbsp; I&#039;ve fleshed out the attribution a bit.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/artemide/614/image00266.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>KYRENAIKA, Kyrene</b></p><p>Koinon issue</p><p>c. 250 BCE</p><p>AE; 21 mm, 7.47 gm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; head of Zeus-Ammon right, wearing taenia</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; silphium plant; monogram left; K-O / N-I / O-N</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; Müller, Afrique 114; Buttrey, Coins 219 var. (no monogram); SNG Copenhagen 1276-9 var. (no monogram); BMC 16-9 (Koinon)</p><p>I think it may be an obverse die match to <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=140197" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=140197" rel="nofollow">this CNG coin</a>, and you can see where the reverse legend would be if this coin were in better condition.&nbsp; The reverse of my coin-to-be has the same monogram.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an old writeup of the silphium plant:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-kyrenaikas-silphium-plant.245537/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-kyrenaikas-silphium-plant.245537/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-kyrenaikas-silphium-plant.245537/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>My other silphium coins... one horrible condition rarity from Barke and one British Museum electrotype:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/kyrenaika-barke-arhemidrachm-jpg.325513/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>KYRENAIKA, Barke</b></p><p><b>480-450 BC</b></p><p>AR hemidrachm, 13 mm, 1.57 gm</p><p>Obv: silphium plant</p><p>Rev: head of Zeus Ammon right within linear frame, B A P K around</p><p>Ref: (which I have not checked) Müller MAA 301. Very rare.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/readyelectrotype-rt-jpg.463688/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>KYRENAIKA, Kyrene</b></p><p><b>modern copy by electrotypist Robert Ready</b></p><p><b>host coin, c. 410-400 BCE, acquired by the British Museum in 1872</b></p><p>AR &quot;tetradrachm&quot;, 27 mm, 16.64 gm</p><p>Obv: Bearded head of Zeus-Ammon, wearing tainia with uraeus-like ornament at forehead, facing slightly left within laurel wreath</p><p>Rev: silphium plant; K V P A N A (split between fields, retrograde K)</p><p>Edge: initials R R</p><p>Ref: BMC 77 (host coin); B.V. Head. <i>A guide to the principal coins of the Greeks, from circ. 700 B.C. to A.D. 270</i>. London. 1965 pl. 20, 61 (host coin); host coin BM accession number 1872,0709.361; B.V. Head. <i>A Guide to the Select Greek and Roman Coins Exhibited in Electrotype</i>, London. 1880. Period III C #44.</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-a-copy-will-have-to-suffice.272376/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-a-copy-will-have-to-suffice.272376/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-a-copy-will-have-to-suffice.272376/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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