Help please! Where is this Greek coin from?

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  1. monetarium

    monetarium Member

    Hello friends,
    I'm wondering if the head on this coin is young Heracles and it is probably from Lysimacheia.

    Its size is about the same as a dime.

    Any thoughts?

    Thank you! IMG_0817.JPG IMG_0817.JPG IMG_0818.JPG
     
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  3. Nicholas Molinari

    Nicholas Molinari Well-Known Member

    Perhaps Lydia—the first photo is not the proper orientation. It is a bearded head to right, presumably Herakles.
     
  4. Nicholas Molinari

    Nicholas Molinari Well-Known Member

    I think I see the remains of SARDIANWN to right of reverse figure.
     
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  5. monetarium

    monetarium Member

    Thank you, Nicholas!
     
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  6. GinoLR

    GinoLR Well-Known Member

    It's a coin of Sardis, Lydia.
    Obv.: head of Herakles right (rotate your pic 90° counterclockwise)
    rev.: in r. field ΣAΡΔIANΩN, in l. field MHNO/ΓENHC, Apollo standing left

    I did not find this coin with the name of the magistrate Menogenes. Magistrates of this name are known in Sardis from inscriptions (Augustan era). Please take better pics! This modest coin deserves it, it's perhaps an unpublished one...
     
  7. monetarium

    monetarium Member

    Many thanks, GinoLR!
     
  8. GinoLR

    GinoLR Well-Known Member

    I found your coin, it's a 2nd-1st c. BCE AE 16 mm of Sardis (Lydia), magistrate Lyras Menogenes.
    Greek and Roman Provincial Coins - Lydia vol.4, nr. 91.

    Here is a pic of another specimen I found on Wildwinds:
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  9. monetarium

    monetarium Member

    Many thanks, GinoLR!
    Sorry for the late response, I'm not sure why it didn't show in my notifications. :bored:
     
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