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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 2997574, member: 87404&quot;][ATTACH=full]740931[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Teos, Ionia</b></p><p><b>AE10, 3rd Century BC</b></p><p>Obverse: Griffin seated on haunches right, left paw raised.</p><p>Reverse: Kantharos, with a bunch of grapes hanging above its mouth. THI-ΩN across lower field.</p><p>Reference: BMC XVI Ionia p314</p><p>10mm, 1.3g</p><p><br /></p><p>SNG Cop, part 24, page 596 says: &quot;Bronze money of Teos. The autonomous bronze coins of Teos range from the latter part of the fourth century down to Roman times; but they are of no special interest. The usual types are—obv. Griffin, and rev. Kantharos, Ivy-wreath, or Lyre, with inscr. ΤΗΙΩΝ and magistrate’s name in nom. case.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t actually have any physical reference books, I just do a lot of searching online.&nbsp; Most of what I&#039;ve found online (WW, acsearch, Vcoins, MA-shops, Forvm, <a href="http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org/" rel="nofollow">SNG UK Database</a>) has been references for larger versions of this coin (i.e. AE17 and have greater magistrate inscriptions) and they refer to SNG Copenhagen 1445, 1448, 1450, 1454, etc.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]740923[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what I found in<b><i> BMC: Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Ionia</i></b> by B. V. Head with a long listing (a couple pages anyways) of sizes and variations.&nbsp; This initial description seems to fit my coin, but the &quot;Metal. Size.&quot; column didn&#039;t match my AE10 and were instead AE7s, AE5s, AE65s, and AE55s. Or am I reading it wrong?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]740922[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The actual closest similar coin I could find online was this one, but it had no references listed with it.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/coins/teos_001.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/coins/teos_001.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/coins/teos_001.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is another coin I was able to find, but it&#039;s devices appear smaller than mine, though they are the same elements.&nbsp; And it references SNG Cop 1359 (&lt;--Noob question: where does that number come from? I figured the page number? Maybe it uses the newer 8-volume pages and not the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=sylloge%20nummorum%20graecorum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=sylloge%20nummorum%20graecorum" rel="nofollow">original 43</a> where I&#039;ve been looking online?).</p><p><a href="https://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=1063150&amp;AucID=2084&amp;Lot=251&amp;Val=9c97a6fcad1bc6a30c0c6c5675df3877" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=1063150&amp;AucID=2084&amp;Lot=251&amp;Val=9c97a6fcad1bc6a30c0c6c5675df3877" rel="nofollow">https://www.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=1063150&amp;AucID=2084&amp;Lot=251&amp;Val=9c97a6fcad1bc6a30c0c6c5675df3877</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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