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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5144122, member: 110504"]Right, consider the source, but the first one is an Athenian tetradrachm, likely just a little later than the iconic ones from around the earlier-mid 5th c. BCE.</p><p>Coin 2 is the most fun from here. At first, the lettering looked Armenian, as in the medieval Cilician ones. Now I'm not so sure it's even Syriac. The motifs evoke some fun combination of influences from somewhere in Central - South Asia.</p><p>3 is a Ptolemaic tetradrachm, Egypt, c. 3rd-1st c. BCE. The Greek (and finding an online keyboard, from here, could be another ten minutes) for 'Ptolemy' is very clear on the left of the reverse. Doesn't help you much, since they were as thick as Louis ...s in France. They're nearly all readily attributable, though, by people who know what they're doing.</p><p>4 (and 5?) is from the kingdom of Amisus (AMI[...S]OY), c. 2nd-1ST c. BCE. From here, neither reverse is familiar.</p><p>...I'm out of my league here, but the monogram, "MR", in the upper left of the clearer one, Might be as easy as the prevailing royal name, Mithridates.</p><p>Here's what Wiki has to say about the kingdom at large.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Pontus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Pontus" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Pontus</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5144122, member: 110504"]Right, consider the source, but the first one is an Athenian tetradrachm, likely just a little later than the iconic ones from around the earlier-mid 5th c. BCE. Coin 2 is the most fun from here. At first, the lettering looked Armenian, as in the medieval Cilician ones. Now I'm not so sure it's even Syriac. The motifs evoke some fun combination of influences from somewhere in Central - South Asia. 3 is a Ptolemaic tetradrachm, Egypt, c. 3rd-1st c. BCE. The Greek (and finding an online keyboard, from here, could be another ten minutes) for 'Ptolemy' is very clear on the left of the reverse. Doesn't help you much, since they were as thick as Louis ...s in France. They're nearly all readily attributable, though, by people who know what they're doing. 4 (and 5?) is from the kingdom of Amisus (AMI[...S]OY), c. 2nd-1ST c. BCE. From here, neither reverse is familiar. ...I'm out of my league here, but the monogram, "MR", in the upper left of the clearer one, Might be as easy as the prevailing royal name, Mithridates. Here's what Wiki has to say about the kingdom at large. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Pontus[/URL][/QUOTE]
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