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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 3541743, member: 96635&quot;]Awesome [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER] congrats on your 2 Epeiros coins!! Two very nice coins from two totally different era&#039;s of Epeirote history. Your first coin has a very nice and clear AΠEI PΩTAN inscription. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am very happy I obtained the below coin (probably everyone is like... what is so special to an &#039;ugly&#039; coin as that). In my opinion I think this is an half unit of the Epeirote Republic coin you obtained. Epeiros coins are quite scarce and obscure already, but this half unit is absolutely one of a kind, I can find no references or sales records of this particular type.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/8IFlI68.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>Epirote League Bronze coin (234–168 B.C.)</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Head of Dodonian Zeus right.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> AΠEI PΩTAN thunderbolt.</p><p>13mm; 2.75g </p><p><br /></p><p>I obtained some 10 other Epeiros coins since I posted this thread, I must one time put it here on the forum, but unfortunately there are very few people who are interested in Epeirote coins, would love to see more here on the forum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ofcourse, Pyrrhos is in my top 3 of favorite ancient generals! Your second coin is certainly minted in his first reign as a king of Macedon when he had control over a coin workshop in Pella, in his second reign he did not have this. I believe that if Pyrrhos had the chance he would have definitly minted silver coins as king of Macedon, however, due to a lack of silver this was not possible since the control of the Pangaion Mountains was in the hands of Lysimachos, in which he was in able to mint those beautiful tetradrachms of his.</p><p><br /></p><p>To your last question, it is either a magistrate monogram or a mint mark, it is the most frequent one on Epeirote silver coins, my Epeirote drachm has the exact same monogram as well. I see this monogram also in combination with other monograms or magistrates names and even on bronze coins (see coin below), which makes me think even more that this is an magistrates symbol and not a mint mark. I would love to have this bronze coin, it&#039;s an absolute rarity.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/915/670451.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>EPEIROS, Federal coinage (Epirote Republic). </b>Circa 234/3-168 BC. Æ 12mm (1.89 g, 9h). Piloi of Dioskouroi; stars above, monogram below / Star. Franke -; SNG Copenhagen 138 var. (monogram). Near VF, light brown patina.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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