Need help identifying

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  1. Newcoinboy2018

    Newcoinboy2018 Active Member

    257A80BF-E2EB-4449-9FE3-525198789EA1.jpeg B919312E-CF7C-4105-B53A-18EBDF510500.jpeg Can anyone tell me what type of coins these are? Such as the name for each one?
    I’d say Roman...but not sure...
     
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  3. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

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    They appear to be modern replicas of two Greek coins. First is an imitation of a coin of Kaunos and second of Lucania. Here are examples of what they mimic:


    https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=309734
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    CARIA, Kaunos. Circa 410-390 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 11.94 g, 12h). Winged female figure in kneeling-running stance left, head right, holding kerykeion and wreath / Baetyl(?) with central pellet; (inverted Δ) Γ (K B in Carian) across upper field; all within incuse square. Konuk 106–7 var. (unlisted dies); Konuk, Coin M26; SNG Keckman 826. EF, find patina


    https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=272334
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    LUCANIA, Herakleia. Circa 390-340 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.94 g, 3h). Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla throwing stone held in right hand; EY to right / Herakles standing facing, torso right, strangling the Nemean Lion to right; |-HPAKΛ-EIΩN above, [AΠOΛ] and club to left, oinochoe below. Work 47 (same dies); Van Keuren 51 (same obv. die as illustration); HN Italy 1378; SNG ANS 66; SNG Lloyd –; Basel –; Bement 138 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian –; Hunterian 7 (same dies); McClean 825 (same obv. die); Weber 706 (same dies). Superb EF, toned. From artistic dies. Arguably the finest known.
     
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    Newcoinboy2018 Active Member

    Thanks! I appreciate it.
     
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