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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8054036, member: 128351&quot;]I am 100% sure it is a Phoenician <i>mem</i>. Phoenician script has been in use for more than 1000 years from North Africa to Babylonia to write different Aramaic dialects. There have been many different styles of <i>mems</i>, like there are different ways to draw Greek or Latin letters.</p><p>This <i>mem </i>that looks a little like a swastika is, for ex., typical of the Philistian coast from the 4th c. BC. You find it on pseudo-Athenian coins minted there, on Athena&#039;s cheek or in the right field on the reverse. This <i>mem </i>was from the 2nd c. BC to the 3rd c. AD the mint-mark of Gaza, and you will find it on the reverse of nearly EVERY coin of Gaza, from Demetrius II to Elagabalus!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1395005[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Not my coins</b> of course ! this is just a few examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>And if you are interested in your coin&#039;s story, where it has been, it is possible, very possible, that it comes from Gaza. A very big hoard of thousands of Alexander coins has been found in Gaza in 2017, mostly tets but also didrachms and decadrachms, and Roma auctioned a great number of coins that some think they must have been from this hoard. But that&#039;s the problem with the market : you can never know the provenance of coins...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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