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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2362930, member: 56859&quot;]I suspect yours is a coin issued by a Greek city &quot;in the time of Antiochos IV&quot;.&nbsp; On Wildwinds, look on <a href="http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/2005_12_25_archive.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/2005_12_25_archive.html" rel="nofollow">this page for Ake-Ptolemais</a>.&nbsp; It&#039;s hard to discern much on your coin&#039;s obverse but it certainly could depict the Dioscuri, making it the same as the coin I showed several posts upthread.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, unless you can see details better in hand than in your image, the attribution will remain a best guess (but I think the guess is probably correct <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ancient_imports/8/product/phoenicia_akeptolemais_as_antiocheia_19816__dioscuri_and_cornucopia/34349/Default.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/ancient_imports/8/product/phoenicia_akeptolemais_as_antiocheia_19816__dioscuri_and_cornucopia/34349/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">Vcoins example</a> of one for which it is similarly difficult to see two jugate busts:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://images.vcoins.com/product_image/8/B/5/bJ8SE2AktL6HTf43w5MSBo4ay7Zs8q.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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