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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3380861, member: 56859"]Man... that's a tough one to search, as you undoubtedly discovered! The obverse is most likely Athena. Using search terms "Athena helmet AR" returned ten thousand hits because the word "helmet" is usually part of the description of Athena. Narrowing it down by using the minus sign with various terms ("Athena helmet AR -tetradrachm -drachm -owl" etc) still left too many hits for me to quickly scan.</p><p><br /></p><p>The helmet reminds me of coins of Himera but this isn't from there-- the similar Himeran coins don't have a crest on the empty helmet, the reverse punch isn't a square, and Athena isn't on the obverse. As for denomination, it's hard to know the original denomination (or our modern name for it) because of part of the coin is missing. Hemiobol? Other denomination word, perhaps [fraction]litra? </p><p><br /></p><p>The style is archaic (square incuse punch for the reverse; general style). Suspecting it was struck in Asia Minor, I tried searching asiaminorcoins.com but struck out there.</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll try again when I have some time, if no one else has nailed it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3380861, member: 56859"]Man... that's a tough one to search, as you undoubtedly discovered! The obverse is most likely Athena. Using search terms "Athena helmet AR" returned ten thousand hits because the word "helmet" is usually part of the description of Athena. Narrowing it down by using the minus sign with various terms ("Athena helmet AR -tetradrachm -drachm -owl" etc) still left too many hits for me to quickly scan. The helmet reminds me of coins of Himera but this isn't from there-- the similar Himeran coins don't have a crest on the empty helmet, the reverse punch isn't a square, and Athena isn't on the obverse. As for denomination, it's hard to know the original denomination (or our modern name for it) because of part of the coin is missing. Hemiobol? Other denomination word, perhaps [fraction]litra? The style is archaic (square incuse punch for the reverse; general style). Suspecting it was struck in Asia Minor, I tried searching asiaminorcoins.com but struck out there. I'll try again when I have some time, if no one else has nailed it.[/QUOTE]
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