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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 357952, member: 6370&quot;]Not exactly sure what you mean. These are hammered coins thus the portraits from die to die might not match, or they may be made by different hands but they are the same coin type, from roughly the same time period, from Asia Minor, both are from Pisidia, minted in the town of Termessos probably around 3rd century A.D. not sure you can get much more exact on the date.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yours has been scrubbed clean of patina so the copper surface is showing. As the coin had a patina, patina being corrosion that eats pits in the metal, your coin is pitted copper...the coin above was cleaned JUST A BIT more than it might have needed as the pinkish copper is starting to show. The one above also has had areas on the portrait and reverse pressed which obscure the portrait of Zeus a bit and rubbed out the head of Tyche on the reverse. But they both have Zeus on the obverse and Tyche on the reverse, same inscriptions and marks in the same fields.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These coins are similar enough that I would say they might be from the same die maker, same school, if not the same die but certainly the styles are similar enough to date them from the same time period. Yours is just in just poor shape from corrosion and cleaning. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your coin info below:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Pisidia, Termessos Major (Asia Minor in what is now Turkey) AE31. Time of Gordian III to Gallienus. TEPMHCCE<font face="Symbol">W</font>N <font face="Symbol">Q </font>laureate head of Zeus right / T<font face="Symbol">W</font>NMEIZON<font face="Symbol">W</font>N<font face="Symbol"> Q / </font>Tyche standing left, wearing kalathos, holding rudder &amp; cornucopiae.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If you have any more specific questions about the info above, let me know. I just cant tell you what the greek inscription says. Sorry, most of my coins use Latin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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