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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2196500, member: 57495&quot;]Excellent! That&#039;s a great little find, JA. Definitely sounds a case of having to embrace the variation.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m doing the same with a kantharos coin as well.&nbsp; I believe it is belongs to a group recently re-attributed to Larisa in Troas, where BMC has the type as from Larissa Phrikonis in Aeolis.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t found an exact match yet, and maybe I&#039;m completely off, because those coins describe an amphora on the reverse, and do indeed depict a vessel that looks like an amphora.&nbsp; Mine seems to be a kantharos.&nbsp; The positioning of the (visible) reverse letters are in a different order as well.&nbsp; For now, I&#039;m just going with a BMC var until something better crops up.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2015-5-19_10-3-41-png.413899/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>TROAS, Larisa</b></p><p>Circa 4th century BC</p><p>1.2g, 11.3mm</p><p>BMC 134, 4 (Larissa-Phrikonis) var. (order of letters in ethnic, caduceus on left, amphora)</p><p>O: Female head left, hair in ampyx and sphendone. </p><p>R: Λ/Α-Ρ; kantharos on ground; bunch of grapes above, caduceus to right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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