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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2447899, member: 56859&quot;]Thanks for the better images.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>[I edited this post extensively because of multiple mistakes <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />]</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>As Doug pointed out, the visible Φ on the obverse narrows it down to Philip I or Philip II.</p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse legend is clear except for one or two letters, which can be inferred:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]511400[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The next step if you are unable to find it in the usual and easily searched databases (and there is an example in acsearch, with a slightly different obverse legend)), is to note the references given in similar listings and see if you can find an online version of that book.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this case, I wasn&#039;t able to find the SNG volumes so I looked in other resources.&nbsp; For instance, this is a handy page with links to some BMC volumes:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.ancientgreekandromancoins.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ancientgreekandromancoins.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ancientgreekandromancoins.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Luckly, Phrygia is among the online volumes.&nbsp; Following that link and then looking through it&#039;s table of contents, a coin very similar to yours is found:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]511347[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless later scholarship has come to light, your coin is probably Philip I.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reference cited above is BMC 25, Phrygia 32, or it is similar to it.&nbsp; There are some letters absent in the obverse legend (the name Julius is more fully spelled in the BMC citation).&nbsp; Off the top of my head I don&#039;t remember what some of the usual abbreviations are.&nbsp; I think it is possible that your coin is Philip II but I just don&#039;t know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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