Can You Identify a Coin Found in Egypt?

Hi All,

As part of the Archaeology Magazine article "Egypt's Temple Town" (https://www.archaeology.org/issues/359-1911/trenches/8092-trenches-egypt-thonis-heracleion), the image below was given showing 2 of the coins found. I can ID the gold scyphate but the AE is beyond me. It reminds me of an Italian/Sicilian AE, but that's as far as I can go with it. Searching for variations of 'archaic Herakles walking right AE' didn't help. Does someone have a keen eye for ID'ing this?



Thanks
- Broucheion

 

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How unusual... and I don't know what to make of the ID from the article. "Thonis-Heracleion"?? Not familiar with it, can't find any matching issuing city in ACsearch or Wildwinds. I guess you couldn't make sense of that either, hence the question .

The iconography looks archaic, or almost archaic and reminds me of coinage from Kaulonia:


https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7472511
Bruttium, Kaulonia AR Stater. Circa 500-480 BC. Apollo advancing to right, holding laurel branch over right shoulder, with small daimon running to right on left arm; before, stag standing to right with head reverted, KAVΛ to left / Incuse of Apollo and stag. Noe Group A, 2 (same dies); SNG ANS 141 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 571 (same dies); HN Italy 2035; HGC 1, 1416. 8.15g, 30mm, 12h.

Is that an ankh in the right field? If so, that search term didn't help me either .

 

The coin on the right appears to be a gold hemistater from the city of Kition in Cyprus. Granted this is not my area at all, but some quick digging on acsearch yielded this:


https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3359939

 

Good job, @zadie!

 

Hi @zadie and @TIF,

Thank you so much, both of you! Cyprus is certainly a nearer and more likely source for merchant goods entering Egypt.

- Broucheion