Good afternoon, I lurk in this forum and dabble only in these awesome coins, but modern is where my knowledge base is at. Can I impose on the group to assist me in identification of this coin. I believe it to be Greek but am not having much luck any further. Thank you
It's a Thrace, Maroneia https://www.acsearch.info/search.ht...de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1¤cy=eur&order=1 https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/thrace/maroneia/BMC_66.jpg
Nice one! That's a classic type from Classical Greece, early 4th century BCE (Maroneia, correctly identified in the comment above). Horse and grapes (for the local wine production). I used to find these in all the time back in the "golden age" of bulk uncleaned coin lots (1990s-2000s), still have a little bag of the ones I never got around to selling. Here are a couple of my better ones: (17mm, 5.0g -- actually, just remembered I did sell this one recently) (16mm, 3.9g) Sometimes you also come across ancient imitations of them (by the surrounding Danubian Celts/other tribal groups). I've got a handful of those, too. Here are a couple of the more interesting ones: (14mm, 3.47g) (16mm, 4.3g) They can end up being much more abstract and "derivative" than that. Those are the pretty "realistic" imitations.
