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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nicholasz219, post: 2708010, member: 75641&quot;][ATTACH=full]610784[/ATTACH] So I have been trying to figure out what in the name of the Lord this is for about an hour now.&nbsp; It is in pretty good shape actually, but I am really just having a hard time taking the letters I can see and making them make sense into a town or ruler name that I can then look up.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mind you, a full 75% of my experience in ID&#039;ing Greek coins has come in the last week with this actual group of coins.&nbsp; So bear with me.&nbsp; I could really use some sort of primer as to how to go about taking an unknown coin and then narrowing it down.&nbsp; Usually legends give me a pretty good direction but not in this case at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>First of all the obverse.&nbsp; It appears that the lettering in the legends on both sides is read from the outside rim of the coin.&nbsp; I can make out maybe the top of&nbsp; T, A or Delta, I, Sigma, Lambda or Delta, Y.&nbsp; The portrait holds no significance to me so I can&#039;t even just take a stab at anything other than Zeus maybe which doesn&#039;t narrow the field much.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse has the standing figure and from his left foot I see, KO(Gamma)(P? misshapen B?)O(Y?)LambdaAN.&nbsp; On the statue&#039;s right side you can see DIO.</p><p><br /></p><p>I tried to throw a couple of different letter combinations into Google translate even to see if I was mistyping a town name.&nbsp; I did find out there is a town by the name of Karaoglan in the country of Turkey which gave me hope for a second.</p><p><br /></p><p>So basically any help here would be profound.&nbsp; Also, its obvious I muddle my way through transliteration.&nbsp; Any tips?&nbsp; This is a very frustrating direction my collecting has taken me.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks all.&nbsp; Especially for reading this now long post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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