Please help with ID. Seleucid?

[Robi]

3,13 g., 17 mm.

Hi! Please help me identify the coin, I hope it is a Seleucid SC 1861 coin (description on the screenshot) - but I didn't find the photo and it doesn't quite fit for me.

Will be gratefull for Your help

And Merry Christmas to All!

Edited December 23, 2024 by Robi

[Sulla80]

Don't have an answer, but I agree with you that it is a hard fit with SC 1861 - what's going on in front of Apollo (Palm frond? Legend?) - are those really jugate busts or Tyche on the obverse?

[Nerosmyfavorite68]

What about the Nabataeans? Did they have any reverses like that?

[Robi]

@Sulla80 Thank You for your comment, i think its a palm frond, 

Personally, I saw *ΣΑΝΔ* in the legend - that's why I thought of Alexander I Balas

[Robi]

@Nerosmyfavorite68 yes I think about Nabataeans too, style is some similar, but they haven't such reverse, as I know - but I'm not expert in Nabataean coinage

[Sulla80]

Palm frond and *ΣΑΝΔ* has me thinking I am going with SC 1805.2 which has the palm although your coin underweight ...your coin missing a lot of coin or perhaps a counterfeit?

SELEUKID KINGS of SYRIA. Alexander I Balas, 152-145 BC. Ae (bronze, 5.73 g, 19 mm), Antioch on the Orontes. Head of Alexander I right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟY Apollo standing left, holding arrow and grounded bow; palm branch to outer left, monogram in exergue. SC 1805.2; HGC 9, 901. Nearly very fine.

 

Edited December 23, 2024 by Sulla80

[Robi]

@Sulla80 Thank You for mentioning this type, the reverse encourages me to accept my suspicion that the my coin is of Seleucid origin. 

There are definitely busts on my coin, so the option that it is SC 1861 suits me better... (maybe an imitation of SC 1861?) it would be nice to get to the SC 1861 photo and compare.

[JAZ Numismatics]

I can tell you with certainty that it's not Nabataean. The Nabataeans only used Greek legends on the Damascene issues of Artetas III, and it matches no known Nabataean type.

Edited December 23, 2024 by JAZ Numismatics

[Sulla80]

1 hour ago, Robi said:

@Sulla80 Thank You for mentioning this type, the reverse encourages me to accept my suspicion that the my coin is of Seleucid origin. 

There are definitely busts on my coin, so the option that it is SC 1861 suits me better... (maybe an imitation of SC 1861?) it would be nice to get to the SC 1861 photo and compare.

weight is right for an SC 1861 2.26-4.33g

Edited December 23, 2024 by Sulla80