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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 8197271, member: 82322&quot;]That coin looks great; wish it was mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Published collections tend to be short on tetartemoria, as they were not considered impressive.&nbsp; Before metal detectors tended to be confused with debris before cleaning and not even seen as coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know of no published examples of this type.&nbsp; It is your responsibility to attribute it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Helmets, amphoras and cauduceii are common on ancient coins; we shouldn&#039;t put to much stock into figuring out which cities used those things.&nbsp; What is interesting is the letter Pi on some examples and the leaf on <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2544041" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2544041" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2544041</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p>The same auction where you found this had two other coins that greatly resemble your coin.&nbsp; Probably they all had the same origin.&nbsp; The type is the same as <a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=120875" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=120875" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=120875</a> which was sold in 2008.&nbsp; Did you find anything earlier?</p><p><br /></p><p>Typically if a cataloger can&#039;t attribute something s/he makes a guess based on what other coins came in the same consignment.&nbsp; Figure out the first auction appearances of the type, see what is written in the lot description, then look for other coins of the same city appearing from the same auction house during the same timeframe.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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