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Message:: [QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3279369, member: 96898"]Although I got some useful and friendly hints <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/attribution-help-needed-greek-bronze.320927/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/attribution-help-needed-greek-bronze.320927/">here on CT</a>, this Greek or Roman provincial coin still remains my main mini mystery: [ATTACH=full]866720[/ATTACH] Obv: veiled female head right, wearing wreath or diadem; characteristic bun below the veil at ca. 10 o'clock; mouth and part of the nose overstruck by countermark (bird?) at ca. 3–4 o'clock. Rest of Greek legend to left? Rev: Standing and slightly humped bull or oxen right (the animal's horns are much clearer in hand), line below. 18mm, 4.31g. The stylistically most similar coins that I was able to find are from Thessalonica, Macedonia (pictures below, not my coins), but I am not convinced that this similarity is meaningful at all... The search for a reference continues, I guess. [ATTACH=full]866722[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]866721[/ATTACH] [USER=77226]@Orange Julius[/USER] , concerning your Mauryan AR coin, do you know the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Gupta-Hardaker" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Gupta-Hardaker" rel="nofollow">Gupta Hardaker catalogue</a>? I found it very helpful when attributing my two coins of this type. Since I had borrowed it from a public library and returned it long ago, I don't have it at hand, otherwise I would try to find your coin.[/QUOTE]

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