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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nicholasz219, post: 2709959, member: 75641&quot;]Hello All,</p><p><br /></p><p>In order to keep making myself more insane and keep everyone busy in the meantime, I am working on another Greek coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>This time I have a possible match.&nbsp; The coin is pretty straightforward.&nbsp; Helmeted head of Athena, right.&nbsp; No obverse legend.&nbsp; Owl standing left, wings closed on the reverse.&nbsp; No apparent reverse legend.&nbsp; Possible control marks of C in left field and Lambda in right field.&nbsp; Also possible is VLEH to left.&nbsp; With that in mind, I think this is Sambon 44 from Velia Lucania.&nbsp; It appears that along the top edge of the reverse there could be the remains of a leaf pattern like from the olive branch described in the WW description.&nbsp; I am not sure.&nbsp; But there are similar helmeted Athenas on the Velia coinage along with owls.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem again here is that I am searching &quot;Athena&quot; &quot;Owls&quot; &quot;AE&quot;.&nbsp; I also checked Pergamon in Mysia because there are similar owl coins from there that I have some experience with.&nbsp; No matches.&nbsp; Mind you, when you search for &quot;Athena&quot; or &quot;Owl&quot; in Greek coins you also might as well search the word &quot;the&quot; or &quot;Greek&quot; because you will get 20,000 results.&nbsp; So, needless to say, I am still in amateur hour over here and trying to develop a process which results in me being able to efficiently start with an unknown coin, run it through a gauntlet of references and come out with an ID.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Any opinions or help on this little lady would be helpful.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Velia, Lucania page: </p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/lucania/velia/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/lucania/velia/t.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/lucania/velia/t.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Pergamon, Mysia page, for additional information/ruling out:</p><p><a href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/greece/mysia/pergamon/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/greece/mysia/pergamon/t.html" rel="nofollow">http://wildwinds.com/coins/greece/mysia/pergamon/t.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again everyone!&nbsp; Shout out to TIF for all of the help with my last Greek mystery coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]611734[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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