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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryan McVay, post: 8335258, member: 117904&quot;]Recently I purchased a little scruffy looking coin that I thought was Men but I couldn&#039;t find it anywhere. So I decided to look at the reverse and that was just as hard. There are many coins with an eight-rayed star and several with Greek lettering. But I couldn&#039;t find anything with the Greek letters.&nbsp; By chance I was looking for a different coin in Pontos and found an example of my coin! Yay me! A bit more research, well quite a bit more research, and I can only find 5 other examples. One being a plate coin in SNG Volume XI.</p><p>I&#039;m very happy to add this coin of Men form Pontos, Pharnakeia! (Circa 85-65BC), AE 2.72g, 15mm[ATTACH=full]1477773[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a link to one of the 5 found on <a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=286850" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=286850" rel="nofollow">CNG archives.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There is a similar coin that has been grouped into this series but the bust is different &quot;style&quot; has a beaded border and the letters are in 3-rows around the star. I&#039;d call it a different coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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