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<p>[QUOTE="Ignoramus Maximus, post: 7955430, member: 104741"]Nice coin, [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER]. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's my coin with Lycian script. It's from the dynast Kherei. The only Greek is the letter 'P', the rest are uniquely Lycian symbols. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1379061[/ATTACH] </p><p>Incidentally, it also has the ugliest obverse I've ever come across. Take a peek if you want.</p><p>[ATTACH]1379067[/ATTACH] </p><p>Terrible, right?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What attracted me to this coin, apart from the script, was the combination of the traditional Greek obverse and the more exotic Achaemenid (and ultimately Assyrian) reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>The winged bull is an adaptation of the winged, man-headed lamassu, originally an Assyrian protective deity (with roots going back even further in time, to a Sumerian goddess called Lamma). It also frequently appears in a Persian context (the palace in Persepolis comes to mind, where statues of the lamassu stood and guarded the entrance to many of its rooms). The 'normal' man-headed version of the winged bull is quite frequently found on Lycian staters, but the bull-headed version, like on my coin, was only struck under Kherei. Why this is so, I don't know. There are some staters, and, rarely, fractions. All quarter staters like these all share a single, highly worn obverse die (the zombie Athena), so I think it must have been a very small issue to begin with. I found three or four in the auction record. It's not in Wildwinds or any of the references that I have access to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ignoramus Maximus, post: 7955430, member: 104741"]Nice coin, [USER=81887]@Parthicus[/USER]. Here's my coin with Lycian script. It's from the dynast Kherei. The only Greek is the letter 'P', the rest are uniquely Lycian symbols. [ATTACH=full]1379061[/ATTACH] Incidentally, it also has the ugliest obverse I've ever come across. Take a peek if you want. [ATTACH]1379067[/ATTACH] Terrible, right?:D What attracted me to this coin, apart from the script, was the combination of the traditional Greek obverse and the more exotic Achaemenid (and ultimately Assyrian) reverse. The winged bull is an adaptation of the winged, man-headed lamassu, originally an Assyrian protective deity (with roots going back even further in time, to a Sumerian goddess called Lamma). It also frequently appears in a Persian context (the palace in Persepolis comes to mind, where statues of the lamassu stood and guarded the entrance to many of its rooms). The 'normal' man-headed version of the winged bull is quite frequently found on Lycian staters, but the bull-headed version, like on my coin, was only struck under Kherei. Why this is so, I don't know. There are some staters, and, rarely, fractions. All quarter staters like these all share a single, highly worn obverse die (the zombie Athena), so I think it must have been a very small issue to begin with. I found three or four in the auction record. It's not in Wildwinds or any of the references that I have access to.[/QUOTE]
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