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Help id tetradrachm Greek coin

GothamjGothamj Posts: 2 ✭
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Hello. Thank you for accepting me. This coin was found in a well in England . From some research it looks like a tetradrachm. My main concern is that i have not seen any figure like the one printed here so i am having a lot of trouble of identifying it and its value. Could you please help ? Thank you

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    SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 30, 2020 1:45AM

    Hello, and welcome to the forum. :)

    Do you see the little lightning-bolt symbol on the cheek of the obverse portrait? That's a denomination-mark, distinctive of the contemporary replica owls struck by the Sabaean kingdom in southern Arabia (what we now call Yemen), circa 300 BC. The lightning bolt is the symbol stamped on their 1 drachm coins, other symbols were used on the half, quarter and eighth drachms.

    You can find examples of Sabaean coins on zeno.ru, here: https://zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=2238

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    291fifth291fifth Posts: 23,948 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I just learned something new!

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    GothamjGothamj Posts: 2 ✭

    Thank you !!

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