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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 8270697, member: 82322&quot;]The inscription AS hints that the coin comes from a city beginning with AS.&nbsp; The coin is rare enough that it is hard to use find spots to be certain.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have Yashin so I can&#039;t say if he had any evidence for Askalon.&nbsp; The editors of SNG France thought Aspendos.</p><p><br /></p><p>(It could also be a magistrate beginning with AS.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe Aspendos is the best guess but I am open to new evidence.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are similar small coins with shields we believe are from Aspendos and Selge because of the AC and SE letters.&nbsp; But there are also similar coins, probably of Aspendos, with mystery letters like this one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1459687[/ATTACH] </p><p>Pamphylia, Aspendos? 2.55g AE13</p><p>Obv: gorgon (or Herakles facing?)</p><p>Rev: Σ-?; cauducus</p><p>Gorny &amp; Mosch, Auction 126, October 2003, lot 1413 (part of).</p><p><br /></p><p>This type comes with different letter pairs whose meanings we don&#039;t understand.&nbsp; Imhoof-Blumer attributed this type to Aspendos because many of the same letter pairs are present on silver wrestler/slinger staters with Pamphylian inscriptions naming Aspendos.&nbsp; No one knows what they mean.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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