Help with New Phoenician

Discussion in 'Ancient Coins' started by 7Calbrey, May 6, 2019.

  1. 7Calbrey

    7Calbrey Well-Known Member

    Only the prow on reverse of this bronze coin suggested to me it's Phoenician. There's a woman walking left while turning her head right. The Emperor on obverse does not look strange to me, but I can't find letters to read there. Please try to shed light on this original an interesting coin. It weighs 9.68 g.

    Phoe O.JPG Phondr R.JPG
     
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  3. arizonarobin

    arizonarobin Well-Known Member

    Try- (looks similar!)
    PHOENICIA, Sidon

    Trajan
    98-117 AD.
    Laureate head right; IMP NER TRAIN CAESAVG GERM PP.
    SIDWNOS NAU/ARCIDOS,
    Kadmos standing left on prow, looking right and pointing left
    [L] ZKS (date) in left field.

    SNG Copenhagen 252
    BMC Phoenicia pg. 180, 218
     
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  4. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    Elagabalus (maybe), minted in Sidon I believe. Kadmos running left on prow. Pretty scarce coin - I've never seen one myself in real life.
     
  5. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    Arizonarobin is correct. ZKS makes it Trajan. Man, that's a great coin. If it's not yours yet, buy it! :)
     
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  6. 7Calbrey

    7Calbrey Well-Known Member

    Thanks God it's already mine. And of course thank you for the identification. She @arizonarobin kindly said Trajan not Hadrian. But it's similar to me, since the main issue here is Kadmos. BTW. the other surprise is that I've acquired this coin together with another Phoenician bigger coin. I shall post it soon. Cheers.
     
  7. arizonarobin

    arizonarobin Well-Known Member

    It should be Trajan. There are a few in Vcoins to compare. The L in the date seems to be commonly off flan or illegible.
     
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  8. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    Yes, Trajan, my mistake. Nice find, congratulations! Kadmos was the hero and great slayer of monsters that preceded Hercules, so the iconography references an archaic mythology. I wonder if the later Roman Victory on Prow types were influenced by these coins.
     
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  9. Michael Woodward

    Michael Woodward New Member

    But what does NAY APXIΔOΣ nau/arcidos mean? A term of praise for the city I don't know, or related to seashell - arcidae, arcoida in place of murex?
     
  10. Michael Woodward

    Michael Woodward New Member

    Oh, probably means maritime city - nauarchides. Only refrence found for this is Ezechiel Spanheim, Dissertationes De Praestantia Et Usu Numismatum Antiquorum, vol. 1, p.688
     
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