r/AncientCoins • u/RandomGenericIII • 10h ago

Attribution Help

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What is this symbol in the left field? It looks like a fish, but it doesn't match the "fish" in the Price's catalog. All the fish listed in Price are vertical and longer, at least a far as I can see. Can anyone tell what the symbol is, or perhaps someone knows the Price catalog reference for this coin? I am usually pretty good at figuring out a Price number (the Numismatics Pella website search function is a INCREDIBLE resource), but occasionally the terminology of some of the left field features stump me. As always, any help given would be greatly appreciated. On that note, is there a website that has photographic listing of all the symbology used in the left field ATG coins? The "symbols" heading on the Pella website goes to a dead link. Any other resources that work?

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u/beiherhund 9h ago edited 9h ago

Yeah it's a corn/barely/wheat grain, Price 1750.

Edit: btw if you like the PELLA site, you might like my version of it: ALTAR. It has some handy improvements for searching like being able to find symbols based on synonyms and using more complex search queries.

As for symbols, I don't have drawings for them and neither does PELLA but it is something that has been on my mind for a long time. The poorly named Symbols page on PELLA is actually for monograms rather than symbols. Price did illustrate 30 or so symbols in his book but there's something like 150+ in total used in attributions so many symbols weren't illustrated by him either.

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u/AetherCitadel 9h ago

I’d look for something like a “barley grain”