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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2635469, member: 56859&quot;]That&#039;s a very nice example of the type!&nbsp; Beautiful portrait, well-centered, lovely toning.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hmm, interesting!&nbsp; The issue has such a vast array of control marks, with (per Crawford) 144 obverse and 175 reverse dies.&nbsp; Some of his control mark descriptions leave room for other interpretations and this seems to be one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Have you looked through table XLIII in Crawford to see which pair you think best matches your coin?&nbsp; Unlike some control marks, he doesn&#039;t have line drawings for these.&nbsp; I suspect Crawford would call yours reverse die #9 and he calls the control mark a leaf.&nbsp; He noted five obverse die pairings for reverse #9 and of those five, yours could only be what he calls a pennant (obverse die #13) or a key (obverse die #15).&nbsp; Maybe it&#039;s none of these and I overlooked a better match, or maybe this pairing isn&#039;t in Crawford?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Okay <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Silphium plants; one on an authentic ancient coin and one on a historic electrotype of a BM coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2Fmedia%2Fae43f8_aa9fb54868fa49aaa29fcbae56aafc25.jpg_srb_p_850_424_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb&amp;hash=955b5f5897a6db1634557af6ba8e1231" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>KYRENAIKA, Barke</b></p><p>480-450 BCE</p><p>AR hemidrachm, 13 mm, 1.57 gm</p><p>Obv: silphium plant</p><p>Rev: head of Zeus Ammon right within linear frame, B A P K around</p><p>Ref: Müller MAA 301. Very rare.</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-kyrenaikas-silphium-plant.245537/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-kyrenaikas-silphium-plant.245537/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancients-kyrenaikas-silphium-plant.245537/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/readyelectrotype-rt-jpg.463688/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>KYRENAIKA, Kyrene</b></p><p><b><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-a-copy-will-have-to-suffice.272376/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-a-copy-will-have-to-suffice.272376/">modern copy by electrotypist Robert Ready</a></b></p><p><b>host coin, c. 410-400 BCE, acquired by the British Museum in 1872</b></p><p>AR &quot;tetradrachm&quot;, 27 mm, 16.64 gm</p><p>Obv: Bearded head of Zeus-Ammon, wearing tainia with uraeus-like ornament at forehead, facing slightly left within laurel wreath</p><p>Rev: silphium plant; K V P A N A (split between fields, retrograde K)</p><p>Edge: initials R R</p><p>Ref: BMC 77 (host coin); B.V. Head. <i>A guide to the principal coins of the Greeks, from circ. 700 B.C. to A.D. 270</i>. London. 1965 pl. 20, 61 (host coin); host coin BM accession number 1872,0709.361; B.V. Head. <i>A Guide to the Select Greek and Roman Coins Exhibited in Electrotype</i>, London. 1880. Period III C #44.</p><p><br /></p><p>And a different Frugi, relative of the OP coin&#039;s Frugi?</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/frugi-mercury-cr418-2b-rted-jpg.505197/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-different-frugi.279241/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-different-frugi.279241/">ROMAN REPUBLIC, M. Piso M.f. Frugi</a></b></p><p>58 BCE (redated from Crawford&#039;s 61 BCE by Hersh and Walker, 1984)</p><p>AR denarius, 20 mm, 3.94 gm</p><p>Obv: terminal bust of Mercury right, wearing winged diadem; calix below chin; to left, star above wreath; dotted border</p><p>Rev: M·PISO·M·F / FRVGI above secespita (sacrificial knife) and patera; all within laurel wreath</p><p>Ref: Crawford 418/2b; Sydenham 825; Calpurnia 23</p><p><i>formerly slabbed, NGC XF, 4/5 strike, 4/5 surface</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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