Help with Ancient ID

Yes, the coin is from Pontos, Amisos. With a nice gash from a suspicious merchant.

 

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Pontos/Amisos. The search was easy enough on Coin Archives with "Tyche Owl". That took me to Pontos/Amisos where I looked down a long list of similar issues.

As for "Tyche" versus "Hera" it is a moot point. Tyche just means "fortune" in Greek. One way to say "good-bye" in classical times was "Eutyche" for "good fortune." The attribute was deified to mean "Good fortune to our city" which is why she often wears city walls as her crown. I believe that it began in Seleucia at Antioch and spread by cultural diffusion.

Hera does often wear a crown but it is low, not high, the ornaments are on the band, not above it.

Your example fits Amisos, so I am going with Tyche.

 

Chris, there are no Athenian silver Octadrachms to my knowledge. Are they just so rare that I've never heard of one? The Ptolemies minted gold Octadrachms.

 

Sorry, decadrachm. The famous one.

 

Ah, yes. Quite right.

 

I can say that hadrian is fake, portret is of With fake patina, other must be fake because same patina.
All the best,

Eric

 

Here you see what i mean
http://www.ebay.nl/itm/RARO-SESTERC...7?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_186&hash=item1e93ffe425

 

MrCheeks => yah sadly, some of these ancient-dudes have very limited "social-interaction-skills"

=> ummm, but my suggestion is to merely "roll with it" ..... because eventually you'll find out that some of 'em are actually pretty cool ...

Dude, I hope that you end-up becoming an ancient coin collector ...