I am attempting to attribute one of my (early) Greek coins, (12 mm., 1.86 gm.) and the closest I can get is CARIA Mylasa SNG Cop 421 . . . . Do you agree, or is there another possibility, perhaps. (I am concerned about the lack of 'S' squiggles between the prongs on the trident.) My Coin from the pages of CNG.
I think so. I just happened to be looking up similar types in Historia Numorum Online last night when I saw a similar one (horse right) for sale at Forum. I don't know the research literature on which the attribution was ultimately based, but all these Horse / Trident-with-"S"-shapes coins seem to be attributed to Mylasa. (There's only one left one: N°: 321 ; but a bunch of right ones: N°: 319 ; N°: 320 ; N°: 734 ; N°: 1127 ; N°: 1128 ; N°: 1355 ). But attributions to Carian mints do seem to be particularly contested! We had a recent thread on Caria, Uncertain. A favorite little bronze coin (only 10mm, 1.16g) of mine from Mylasa (?) was interesting to me for this specimen's role in the controversy over its type's attribution: PHOTO Credit: Leu WA 16 (Slg. Vogl) It's the example from the Erich Karl Collection who identified it as Caria, Mygissos. Translating from German, the catalog (Lanz 131, lot 246) stated: Mygissos, Myndos, Mylasa, Myous, Myrina... they actually left one out Nisyros! It was later in the P.R. Franke (Grün 64) and P. Vogl (Leu WA 16) collections, both of which sales identified it as Mylasa -- the usual ID. (When E. Karl originally bought it from Kölner Münzkabinett Auktion 49 [30-31 Oct 1989], Lot 27, it was identified as Caria, Myndos!) It is specimen number one in Historia Numorum Online Temp N. 1883.1 (no. 7 is the "plate coin")
