Help with a tiny Greek silver

Jinx86 · May 25, 2015 6:45AM

Im assuming it is Greek in origin atleast.
1 gram 10mm

TIF2 · May 25, 2015 9:18AM

I'm not sure, but there are very similar coins of Halikarnassos (in Caria). Check out that city in CNG's archives or Wildwinds. I see drachms but not litrae, but maybe you can dig up something from another source.

Selge (in Pisidia) also has some possibilities. Athena right/Sol facing can probably be found in other cities too.

Jinx86 · May 25, 2015 11:19AM

Think I may have found it. Thanks for pointing the way.

This is closest I have found. Face style of this later period.
PISIDIA, Selge. Circa 250-190 BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.84 g, 12h). Facing gorgoneion / Helmeted head of Athena right; spearhead and astralagos behind.
http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=233348

determined · May 25, 2015 11:28AM

It looks like you found it.

LINK

Jinx86 · May 25, 2015 11:29AM

With the amount of time Ive put into some of these you'd think it would start getting easier, but its the opposite since I started with ones I could read.

Aethelred · May 26, 2015 9:01AM

Neat little coin.

nicholasz219 · May 26, 2015 7:47PM

Jinx, yeah it is kind of a terrible learning curve. I never understood how people could make out the lettering in legends on Roman coins much less the Greeks and others for the longest time. But by working through and seeing hundreds of coins, it was like a foreign language even though it was Latin: one day it just clicked. Abbreviations become clear, emperors are distinguishable for the most part until the fourth century by portrait and types become familiar. Also like studying languages, it seems to happen suddenly and insidiously where all of a sudden you realize you are writing things down and skipping going to certain webpages because you already know. In other words, there is an end to the frustration. Only to find new frustrations, haha.

santelia · May 27, 2015 2:07AM

Cool! Anyone know the story behind the siege?

santelia · May 27, 2015 2:10AM

Sorry, just Googled it. Selge.
I thought it looked too nice to come through a siege....

Jinx86 · May 27, 2015 3:31AM

Spelling mistakes can lead to fun adventures.

Help with a tiny Greek silver

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