Merry Greetings.. Weighing 10.1 g. this bronze coin has an incused image on reverse. The obverse shows some sort of an ancient animal or horse. There's also a clear Greek lettering, something ending with FILA, I assume. Please post your kind opinions. Thanks..
reverse looks to be based off of one of these THRACE, Abdera. Circa 395-360 BC. AR Stater. Philados, magistrate. Griffin seated left; cicada to left, ABΔH to right / Herakles seated half-left, his head turned to half-right, on lion skin draped over rock, his right hand holding club set vertically on his knee, his left arm resting on his left thigh; EΠI ΦIΛA-ΔOΣ at sides; all within shallow incuse square. May, Abdera – (A277/P319 – unlisted combination); AMNG II 105.1, pl. 2, 40 = Berlin 65 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Lockett 1132 = Weber 2379; Gulbenkian 447 = Jameson 2000 (same obv. die).
After the description of Arnoldoe as a Stater, I now realize it's more likely to be silver despite its dark grayish color. I didn't find it on Wildwinds, and Arnold assumes that the coin is not listed as far as combinations . What do you say? It dates 4 centuries B.C.
Sorry, 7-C, I'm as stumped as you are...The only examples close to yours seem to be those of the type @arnoldoe posted.
Fakerdoodles. Probably. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=26
