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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24893084, member: 26430&quot;]Oh, yes! There are some fun ones. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2934092" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2934092" rel="nofollow">Silenos</a> (my favorite type), <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=311104" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=311104" rel="nofollow">bee</a> [edit: oops, previously Lesbos or Lycia, not Ionia?], <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1251621" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1251621" rel="nofollow">Athena</a>. Those are just for Hemiobols. (But the turtle is always on the reverse for those ones.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Also: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10769539" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10769539" rel="nofollow">tiny dolphin (tunny?) Tetartemorion</a>! For the latter, Heritage writes:</p><blockquote><p>&quot;Silver fractions with turtles have been attributed to various locations from Lesbos to Lycia, and provide no help in identifying this unrecorded type. Methymna is known to have employed both turtles and dolphins on their coins and thus seems the most likely candidate. Lycian Dynasts also used turtles and dolphins, but the style on those issues are unlike this coin.&quot;</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>For another Athena, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=642081" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=642081" rel="nofollow">CNG writes</a>:</p><blockquote><p>&quot;The “head of Athena / sea turtle” obols previously have been attributed to Lycia, but Athena’s helmet on many specimens features an ornately designed bowl that is strikingly similar to that found on coins of Methymna. &quot;</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>So, many of these have a highly tentative quality, and Lycia and Lesbos have been or are both considered plausible.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>NOT MY COINS</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1599208[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1599209[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1599210[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1599211[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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