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Message:: [QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 2664093, member: 85693"]This is my first ever post on a collector's forum, so I please let me know if I violate protocol, etc.  I have been reading the posts here for some time and have greatly admired the expertise and overall friendliness of the members' posts.  I have learned a lot, so I decided to sign up.  I've been collecting ancient coins for 30 years (exactly - my first purchase was in 1987 - a denarius of Septimius Severus, "Mars Pater" reverse - I still have it).  That's a long time, but I am no expert, just a rank amateur.  Roman silver is what I mostly seek, but I am pretty omnivorous when it comes to ancients.  Anyway, for my first post, I was wondering if I could get some help on a coin I bought on eBay a couple years back.  It was advertised as an "unknown ancient Larissa silver coin 1.2g" which is what is kind of looked like.  I enjoy unknowns like this because it gives me an opportunity to do some researching.  With the resources on the Web, I can usually track down what I have (I recently figured out - thanks to CoinTalk posts - just what in the heck Genius was doing with a decapitated bearded head on the reverse of a Maximinus II follis - thank you!).  But this one continues to stump me.  The obverse looks like the usual facing head of Helios (or Medusa?) seen on  Larissa or Rhodes drachmas and fractions.  But the reverse baffles me.  An incuse rose bud?  Nothing I've found from Rhodes looks like this, however.  I have Google Imaged this thing dozens of different ways and I just can't find another example.  I'm beginning to think it is a tourist fake of some sort.  I paid $10.50 for it, so you won't devastate me if you tell me its a phony.  Weight - 1.2 grams.  Length - 13 mm (long axis) Can anybody help?[/QUOTE]

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