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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3615691, member: 84744"]A very nice coin, and intriguing too! I am far from expert on these, but I just spent some time looking into the possibilities. (Eryx? Too big. Caduceus issue? No evidence of the caduceus. Sicilian dishekel? No match...)</p><p><br /></p><p>Stylistically the best match seems to be the late (post 200) SNG Cop 409-413 trishekels, like the one you found. Note that the site Justin Lee cites, magnagraecia.nl, lists a wide range of weights for these, as low as 12.40g:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]968612[/ATTACH] </p><p>(The smaller denomination Justin pointed out, in the second line, seems <i>too</i> small.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe the wide range of weights indicates that there was actually a (more rarely encountered) dishekel denomination, which you've got? Or else the trishekel could get super light. Yours would have lost some weight from the hole, of course. Is there any evidence that some metal may have been shaved or worn off around the rim, maybe to mount it or something? If not, maybe just a small flan got used in desperate times... in any case the coin does seem to be short on flan given the implied size of the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>The closest thing I have is my Caduceus issue (2nd Punic War) with raised foreleg, 23mm, 8.12g:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]968613[/ATTACH] </p><p>(At least I think it's mine. Bertolami has been singularly uncommunicative about my order... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie81" alt=":shifty:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3615691, member: 84744"]A very nice coin, and intriguing too! I am far from expert on these, but I just spent some time looking into the possibilities. (Eryx? Too big. Caduceus issue? No evidence of the caduceus. Sicilian dishekel? No match...) Stylistically the best match seems to be the late (post 200) SNG Cop 409-413 trishekels, like the one you found. Note that the site Justin Lee cites, magnagraecia.nl, lists a wide range of weights for these, as low as 12.40g: [ATTACH=full]968612[/ATTACH] (The smaller denomination Justin pointed out, in the second line, seems [I]too[/I] small.) Maybe the wide range of weights indicates that there was actually a (more rarely encountered) dishekel denomination, which you've got? Or else the trishekel could get super light. Yours would have lost some weight from the hole, of course. Is there any evidence that some metal may have been shaved or worn off around the rim, maybe to mount it or something? If not, maybe just a small flan got used in desperate times... in any case the coin does seem to be short on flan given the implied size of the die. The closest thing I have is my Caduceus issue (2nd Punic War) with raised foreleg, 23mm, 8.12g: [ATTACH=full]968613[/ATTACH] (At least I think it's mine. Bertolami has been singularly uncommunicative about my order... :shifty:)[/QUOTE]
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