I admired the protruding prow on this Phoenician ship from Arados. The Greek ligature Alpha and Rho above tell the name of the island. With Tyche on the obverse, the coin is still in its crude sandy patina. I 'd like to share it on this site. It weighs nearly 6 g.
Hey Charles, cool! I just got a similar coin today! My first new ancient post of the year, but it's a good pair with your coin, so I'll post it here if you don't mind. Also a small Greek AE with a prow and ligature! Macedonian Kingdom. Demetrios I Poliorketes. 306-283 B.C. AE O: Head of Athena right in crested Corinthian helmet. R: Prow right; above, BA; to right, bipennis; below, AP ligate. 16 mm, 2.6 g. Oh man! They cut off my bipennis! Dang it!
Very nice! When it is too much work to abbreviate your city name just create a monogram out of the first two letters! I had not seen that before. I have a prow coin, possibly from Arados. It matches a coin in SNG Copenhagen, but the authors of that volume weren't willing to commit to a city so it is just "Phoenicia Uncertain". Phoenicia, uncertain city, AE15, 3.82g Obv: Laureate head of bearded god r.; within circle of dots Rev: Prow of galley l. with Athena fighting as figure-head; above ΙΔ; below CΙΕ Ref: SNG Copenhagen 382 as uncertain mint, BMC Phoenicia p. 297 #2 What really interested me was the inscriptions on the reverse, which look like ΙΔ and CΙΕ. That means a Greek Delta, a Latin C, and a Phoenician all on the same coin, all jumbled up. If CIE is the date it decodes as year 200+10+5=215. There is a Arados bronze, Zeus/Prow, dated CH which is year 208 corresponding to 51/1 BC. If my CIE is Arados this would be seven years after that, or 44/3 BC.
Great coin @7Calbrey ! My only NON-ROMAN Prow... RR Prv Macedon Amphipolis AE Semis 187-131 BC Zeus Prow giraffe shape SNG Cop 69 My only Phoenecian Coin: Tyre 1-16 shekel 10mm 0.47g 425-394 BCE hippocamp l over waves - owl with crook flail Sear Greek 5916.BMC Tyre 43 SNG Danish 302
