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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2720689, member: 82322&quot;]This one is in miserable condition, but is very rare.&nbsp; I thought some of you might like it more than the usual suspects.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]616234[/ATTACH] </p><p>Cilicia Mallos.&nbsp; 425-385 BC?&nbsp; obol 0.63g, 8.5mm.</p><p>Obv: Ammon head right</p><p>Rev: Gorgon</p><p>Harlan J Berk, Buy or Bid sale 86, July 1995, lot 297. (Misdescribed as Pisidia, Selge: gorgon/gorgon and unsold).</p><p><br /></p><p>Unpublished, but there is one in the ANS collection <a href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.54099?lang=en" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.54099?lang=en" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/collection/1944.100.54099?lang=en</a></p><p>Four specimens known.&nbsp; The ANS example, this one, one sold by Münzen &amp; Medaillen in 2009 and one sold by CNG in 2010.</p><p><br /></p><p>The spelling of the city’s name as ΜΑΡ rather than ΜΑΛ may help to date this piece.&nbsp; Barclay Head assigned all but one coin inscribed ΜΑΡ to 425-385 BC.&nbsp; He dates ΜΑΛ coins to 385-333 BC.&nbsp; A Mallos coin, winged man with solar disk / swan, of similar weight and fabric is dated to 425-385 BC by Edoardo Levante.</p><p><br /></p><p>The date range, 425-385 BC, deserves to be explicitly unpacked.&nbsp; 385 BC means before the satrapal period.&nbsp; 425 BC merely means the end of the 5th century.&nbsp; Although the gorgoneion is within an incuse square, and incuse square fabrics are associated with early coinage, Wayne Sayles told me “We do not find any Mallos coins in Archaic hoards.&nbsp; The early coins do often have an archaizing style and there are frequent examples of archaizing throughout the Pre-Seleucid era.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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