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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8253089, member: 26430&quot;]Cool -- this looks like one of those very early bronze coins of Macedon, some of the very first bronze coins struck, c. 450 or maybe 400 BCE or a bit later... That&#039;s pretty much how all of those really early AE look, whether Macedon, Ionia, or elsewhere. I&#039;ll try to find the last reference I read about these.</p><p><br /></p><p>Tragilos (legend T - P - I - A)</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8590282" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8590282" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8590282</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8590281" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8590281" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8590281</a></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8930560" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8930560" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8930560</a></p><p><br /></p><p>They also came in circular legends:</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8651340" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8651340" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8651340</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=hermes+Tragilos+400&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;thesaurus=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=hermes+Tragilos+400&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;thesaurus=1" rel="nofollow">More search results</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>EDIT:</b> Here&#039;s a similar article that&#039;s available online. From my notes:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><b>Konuk, Koray</b>. 2011. “<a href="https://www.academia.edu/332711/War_Tokens_for_Silver_Quantifying_the_Early_Bronze_Issues_of_Ionia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/332711/War_Tokens_for_Silver_Quantifying_the_Early_Bronze_Issues_of_Ionia" rel="nofollow">War Tokens for Silver? Quantifying the Early Bronze Issues of Ionia</a>,” pp. 151-161 in Callatay, F. (ed.), <i>Quantifying Monetary Supply in Greco-Roman Times</i>, Pragmateia 19.</p><blockquote><p><font size="4">Interesting article about the earliest AE in Ionia, struck circa 400 BCE, and an argument about their function as token coinage for military / local usage. Discusses the Phygela, 1997 Hoard, sold at CNG MBS 51 (the catalog that also included the anonymous BCD Athens AE part II and 1 or 2 coins of mine). Tiny coins, ~10mm, under 1g. The majority (was it plurality?) from Ephesos, which was the first city of Ionia.</font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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