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<p>[QUOTE="Drusus, post: 207705, member: 6370"]<img src="http://imagedb.coinarchives.com/img/munzen/013/00378q00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p> </p><p>although I dont think this is your coin, it is of a similar theme.</p><p> </p><p>What I do know is possibly what you know already...that you have a VERY rough, odd styled coin with what appears to be a turreted Bust...now a lot of times this is Tyche (fortuna) the godess that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city (often identified as the city personafied with turreted crown) If it is authentic (I wouldnt know) such a coin would usualy date pre-empire and be of a helenistic city origin...tyche was used by romans but seldom if ever during the empire as a bust on the obverse.</p><p> </p><p>What you have on the reverse is a female figure holding a cornucopia...That reverse figure could be Tyche holding a cornucopia. Such a figure is almost always holding something else in the other hand but its impossible for me to tell it could be a rudder or a patera / phiale...</p><p> </p><p>The style is so rough and odd, unlike anything I have seen and I searched and found hardly anything that resembles it...sorry couldnt be more help on this one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Drusus, post: 207705, member: 6370"][IMG]http://imagedb.coinarchives.com/img/munzen/013/00378q00.jpg[/IMG] although I dont think this is your coin, it is of a similar theme. What I do know is possibly what you know already...that you have a VERY rough, odd styled coin with what appears to be a turreted Bust...now a lot of times this is Tyche (fortuna) the godess that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city (often identified as the city personafied with turreted crown) If it is authentic (I wouldnt know) such a coin would usualy date pre-empire and be of a helenistic city origin...tyche was used by romans but seldom if ever during the empire as a bust on the obverse. What you have on the reverse is a female figure holding a cornucopia...That reverse figure could be Tyche holding a cornucopia. Such a figure is almost always holding something else in the other hand but its impossible for me to tell it could be a rudder or a patera / phiale... The style is so rough and odd, unlike anything I have seen and I searched and found hardly anything that resembles it...sorry couldnt be more help on this one.[/QUOTE]
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