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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2775510, member: 82322&quot;]Here is a tiny coin I haven&#039;t been able to attribute:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]641046[/ATTACH] </p><p>Uncertain Asia Minor.&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><br /></p><p>A similar coin was sold in a Helios auction as unique and unpublished with a possible Lycian attribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>The seahorse or hippocamp is an unusual type on Greek coins. We see it on coins of Taras in Italy and on Phoenician coins. We also see it on bronzes of Sicily. I’m tempted to consider Arados, a city known to have used gorgoneions and hippocamps (never in the same period), or to follow the Helios catalogers and place the issue in Lycia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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