in the form of a "horse-headed bird", to the right
Reverse: A Fir tree, Σ - K across the fields, all within a Square.
Weight: 3.48 g
Diameter: 14.2 x 14.2 x 2 mm
Die axis: 45°
Mint: Skepsis, Mount Ida, Troas, Mysia, circa 400 -306 B.C.
Reference: SG 4134, BMC 17.812; 14-15
Rare variation
Note: The citizens of Skepsis were transported to Antigoneia (formerly Sigeia, laterly Alexandria Troas*) at the end of the 4th century (306 B.C.) by orders of king Antigonus,
Reverse: A Fir tree, Σ - K across the fields, all within a Square.
Weight: 3.48 g
Diameter: 14.2 x 14.2 x 2 mm
Die axis: 45°
Mint: Skepsis, Mount Ida, Troas, Mysia, circa 400 -306 B.C.
Reference: SG 4134, BMC 17.812; 14-15
Rare variation
Note: The citizens of Skepsis were transported to Antigoneia (formerly Sigeia, laterly Alexandria Troas*) at the end of the 4th century (306 B.C.) by orders of king Antigonus,
and invited back by king Lysimachus (circa 294 B.C.).
Sigeia was renamed after Alexander the Great, by Lysimachus.
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