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<p>[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 4612802, member: 96635"]Nice write up and coin [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] thank you for sharing.</p><p>It is interesting you talk about Cleopatra VII, there is a series of coins from Patrai in Achaia that was hastily struck ca. 35 BC to support the funds of Cleopatra and Antony against Octavian. Eventhough it does not show an eagle, it does resemble the portrait of Cleopatra Thea.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=317847" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=317847" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=317847</a></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/10300180.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Who knows the same happened in Argos? In this case however I do not think your eagle is related to Ptolemaic influence, the eagle was on Argos coinage as far as 275 BC: <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=349587" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=349587" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=349587</a></p><p>And I think it is a quite simple reason, I have been there myself, eagles fly continuously over your head in that region (just like Kyzikos strike the tuna on their coins because the tuna migrated past the city to the black sea). Atleast that is my theory.</p><p><br /></p><p>The whole Peloponnese used the reduced heavy Aeginetan standard later on, implemented like that by the Achaian league. With a hemidrachm weighing 2.4-2.3g. Not sure why it is sometimes called triobol and sometimes hemidrachm, it should mean the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>And on your third question, I think it is not listed as Roman Provincial since the type was relatively unchanged for almost 250 years or more. It has 100% Greek iconography and nothing looks even slightly Roman about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no coins from Argos, but do have a cool wolf to share:</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/JuUrr3I.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Lycaonia, Laranda. AR Obol. Circa 324/3 B.C.</b></p><p><b><b>Obverse:</b> </b>Baal seated left, torso facing, holding grain ear and grape bunch in extended right hand, scepter in left.</p><p><b><b>Reverse:</b> </b>Forepart of wolf right; inverted crescent above; all within dotted square border.</p><p><b>Reference: </b>Göktürk 82; SNG BN 443 (Cilicia); SNG Levante 223 (Cilicia).</p><p>0.60g; 9mm[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 4612802, member: 96635"]Nice write up and coin [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] thank you for sharing. It is interesting you talk about Cleopatra VII, there is a series of coins from Patrai in Achaia that was hastily struck ca. 35 BC to support the funds of Cleopatra and Antony against Octavian. Eventhough it does not show an eagle, it does resemble the portrait of Cleopatra Thea. [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=317847[/URL] [IMG]https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/enlarged/10300180.jpg[/IMG] Who knows the same happened in Argos? In this case however I do not think your eagle is related to Ptolemaic influence, the eagle was on Argos coinage as far as 275 BC: [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=349587[/URL] And I think it is a quite simple reason, I have been there myself, eagles fly continuously over your head in that region (just like Kyzikos strike the tuna on their coins because the tuna migrated past the city to the black sea). Atleast that is my theory. The whole Peloponnese used the reduced heavy Aeginetan standard later on, implemented like that by the Achaian league. With a hemidrachm weighing 2.4-2.3g. Not sure why it is sometimes called triobol and sometimes hemidrachm, it should mean the same. And on your third question, I think it is not listed as Roman Provincial since the type was relatively unchanged for almost 250 years or more. It has 100% Greek iconography and nothing looks even slightly Roman about it. I have no coins from Argos, but do have a cool wolf to share: [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/JuUrr3I.jpg[/IMG] [B]Lycaonia, Laranda. AR Obol. Circa 324/3 B.C. [B]Obverse:[/B] [/B]Baal seated left, torso facing, holding grain ear and grape bunch in extended right hand, scepter in left. [B][B]Reverse:[/B] [/B]Forepart of wolf right; inverted crescent above; all within dotted square border. [B]Reference: [/B]Göktürk 82; SNG BN 443 (Cilicia); SNG Levante 223 (Cilicia). 0.60g; 9mm[/QUOTE]
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