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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3179580, member: 82322&quot;]The seahorse or hippocamp is an unusual type on Greek coins.&nbsp; We see it on bronzes in Sicily and on Phoenician coins.&nbsp; We also see it on coins of Taras in Italy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a rare fraction that is none of these.&nbsp; In fact, it is unpublished.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]819117[/ATTACH] </p><p>Unknown Asia Minor mint.&nbsp; 1.0g 10.5mm.</p><p>Obv: Winged hippocamp, forelegs raised, facing right.</p><p>Rev: smiling gorgoneion, tongue protruding, ears as dots, within circle of dots within incuse circle.</p><p>cf. Helios Numismatik, auction 3, April 2009, lot 59 &quot;Lycia&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>A Helios cataloger wrote that his or her attribution to Lycia is not guaranteed, but that is this type is related to the coins of the the Lycian Uwug.&nbsp; However, &quot;Uwug&quot; has since been called a Carian king, and is name is now spelled Orou, and his coins are now said to come from an uncertain Carian mint &quot;G&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m tempted to put this issue with Arados, a Phoenician city known to have used gorgoneions and hippocamps (never in the same period), or to follow the Nomos catalogers and place the issue in Lycia/Caria.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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