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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2510953, member: 56859&quot;]I have one too and I&#039;ve seen at least one other for sale recently so I doubt it is truly rare.&nbsp; There is also a forgery with this reverse.&nbsp; Barry Murphy&#039;s site has a large listing of the types but it is far from complete and this &quot;dot AΓ ligate&quot; variety is not on his site.&nbsp; Recently Barry posted on CoinTalk that he has a couple dozen more varieties not currently listed on that site, which he no longer updates.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s mine:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_ec0d2208be1e448ea1df15ec9a897c32.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_502,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_ec0d2208be1e448ea1df15ec9a897c32.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Thrace, Chersonesos</b></p><p>400-350 BCE</p><p>AR hemidrachm, 13mm, 2.3gm</p><p>Obv: forepart of a lion right, head reverted</p><p>Rev: quadripartite; incuse; dot AΓ (ligate) and pentagram in opposing depressions</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; not in references consulted; c.f. Weber 2422 (dot VE ligate)</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add that after three years of searching and questioning, I&#039;m still not 100% certain that my coin is authentic.&nbsp; The reverse is a very close match to one deemed a forgery, although my obverse doesn&#039;t match the forgery.&nbsp; I posted this coin to Forvm some time ago and the few people who weighed in though it was okay.&nbsp; Unfortunately, Barry Murphy did not chime in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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