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<p>[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 6515554, member: 96635"]Very nice bronzes, congrats on the additions! Bronze coins can generally be more interesting since more obscure and smaller places only minted those. Your bronze coins are struck particularly late in the Hellenic age, where many places in that region struck a lot of issues, probably because they were finally autonomous.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like this bronze coin, interesting iconography and obscure mint:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1260505[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Iconion, Lycaonia Bronze AE, 1st Century B.C.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Bust of Perseus right, wearing winged and griffin-crested helmet, harpa and head of Medusa over left shoulder.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Zeus seated left, nude to the waist, himation around hips and legs, thunderbolt in extended right hand, long scepter vertical in left hand, ЄIKONIЄΩN downward on right.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> vA Lykaoniens 195, SNG BnF 2270 corr. (same rev. die), SNG Tüb 4512, SNG Cop 2 var. (magistrate), SNGvA 5384 var. (same).</p><p>4.61g; 19mm</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed... There were mainly silver fractions and later on these small fractions were being replaced by bronze coins since it is much more convenient. Also, bronze coinage is fiduciary, so it is a big win for the kings/cities as well. I did a write up of it about a place on Crete: <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-of-the-first-bronze-coins-from-gortyn-crete.360850/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-of-the-first-bronze-coins-from-gortyn-crete.360850/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-of-the-first-bronze-coins-from-gortyn-crete.360850/</a></p><p>Unfortunately the images are still messed up... I hope it gets fixed soon.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of my oldest bronze coin, minted late 5th century:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1260502[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Islands off Troas, Tenedos. AE Chalkous. late 5th-early 4th century B.C.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Head of Artemis to right, wearing stephanos.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> T E Labrys.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> SNG Aulock 1589. SNG Cop. 522. SNG München 348.</p><p>0.64g[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 6515554, member: 96635"]Very nice bronzes, congrats on the additions! Bronze coins can generally be more interesting since more obscure and smaller places only minted those. Your bronze coins are struck particularly late in the Hellenic age, where many places in that region struck a lot of issues, probably because they were finally autonomous. I like this bronze coin, interesting iconography and obscure mint: [ATTACH=full]1260505[/ATTACH] [B]Iconion, Lycaonia Bronze AE, 1st Century B.C. Obverse:[/B] Bust of Perseus right, wearing winged and griffin-crested helmet, harpa and head of Medusa over left shoulder. [B]Reverse:[/B] Zeus seated left, nude to the waist, himation around hips and legs, thunderbolt in extended right hand, long scepter vertical in left hand, ЄIKONIЄΩN downward on right. [B]Reference:[/B] vA Lykaoniens 195, SNG BnF 2270 corr. (same rev. die), SNG Tüb 4512, SNG Cop 2 var. (magistrate), SNGvA 5384 var. (same). 4.61g; 19mm Indeed... There were mainly silver fractions and later on these small fractions were being replaced by bronze coins since it is much more convenient. Also, bronze coinage is fiduciary, so it is a big win for the kings/cities as well. I did a write up of it about a place on Crete: [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/one-of-the-first-bronze-coins-from-gortyn-crete.360850/[/URL] Unfortunately the images are still messed up... I hope it gets fixed soon. This is one of my oldest bronze coin, minted late 5th century: [ATTACH=full]1260502[/ATTACH] [B]Islands off Troas, Tenedos. AE Chalkous. late 5th-early 4th century B.C. Obverse:[/B] Head of Artemis to right, wearing stephanos. [B]Reverse:[/B] T E Labrys. [B]Reference:[/B] SNG Aulock 1589. SNG Cop. 522. SNG München 348. 0.64g[/QUOTE]
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