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Started by cuffs50, January 13, 2016, 10:29:51 PM

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cuffs50

Any help is appreciated

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Afrasi

Turn it 90 ° counterclockwise and you see a bearded man wearing a helm.

cuffs50

Yes but I'm trying to find the origin

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Manzikert

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It is imitating a late Mediaeval design of a head right in helmet, itself I think based on the tetradrachms struck by Seleucus I at the Susa mint c.303-295 BC,
see here and others around it.


Alan

edited to repair link

And again...

Pellinore

(Manzikert, your link's not working.) I wonder what's on the other side? To me, it looks like a 19th century imitation of a 17th century German type, for card games.
-- Paul

malj1

Malcolm
Have a look at  my tokens and my banknotes.

cuffs50

That pic is actually both sides. It's the same.

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Pellinore

The link doesn't work for me, but I think you mean coins like this (paste a mustache on Seleucus).
I still think it's a 19th century playing coin.
-- Paul

Manzikert

The link doesn't work for me either now ???

But yes, that is the type I was trying to link to.

The helmeted head is a common 16th-17th century image, see the jar picture from an Italian example about 1520 we have where I work. The addition of the moustache gives it an almost Germanic look.

Alan

malj1

The link works fine for me...

Here it is from that link today. Tuesday here!
Malcolm
Have a look at  my tokens and my banknotes.

Pellinore

Somehow, the picture reminds me of a 19th century children's book.
-- Paul