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Your cabinets point is certainly interesting. However, also hear this! A few weeks back I asked to consign a coin. Cue response: " thanks for your email, but we are not accepting consignments at this time." I think either a rebrand or total winding down is coming...

This is all extremely helpful, thanks very much! I too had initial authenticity concerns because of how unusual the obverse motif was, but I cannot see any features which suggest the coin is not genuine. Its certainly not cast and the metal looks fine. I guess this will be a sparse ticket- 'Lycian???'

A recent acquisition which is proving challenging to identify - any thoughts greatly appreciated. Diameter is 8mm, weight 0.7g. Seller thought it was probably Lycian dynasts but I'm not so sure. The incuse eagle head on the reverse appears similarly on coins of Abdera, but the obverse type is invariably a griffin. Here it seems to be Pegasus. Answers on a postcard, got me totally stumped.

This was advertised on a popular online auction site with blurry pictures obviously taken by some sort of root vegetable. The total cost with postage was about $7.50 (converting from sterling). It gave me the run-around for a while but appears to be a quite scarce variant with these mint controls, most lack them totally. I was able to find two others of this variant sold. https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1049024 https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=136037 Epirus, autonomous coinage struck at the colony of Ambrakia c. 238-168 BC, AE21. Obverse: bust of Apollo right with wreath. Reverse: Zeus right with lightning bolt and aegis, flanked by ethnic A M B P, mint control monogram to left. SNG Cop 31 var (monogram/mint control).