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5.9 by 6.6 mm & weighing .38 of a gram, which should make it a hemiobol. A common enough type, but I thought that this specimen was particularly well struck.   Colligo ergo sum
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Now, that's a lion! Nice. LC
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Nice - and tiny! - pickup.  |
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Interesting to see the dendritic grain structure on the surface, especially on the rev.
"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
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"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
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Woah, deja vu! Where have I seen that before?    Very nice choice - I loved the style of the roaring lion on that one! |
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Woah, deja vu! Where have I seen that before? That's completely discombobulating. Mine and this other struck with the same die pair? It certainly looks like that might well be the case. Could that call the authenticity of both into question? Colligo ergo sum
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I sold that one on ebay about a month ago. I had a stock of about 100 Kyzikos fractions I bought from Kairos Numismatik, and have been selling them slowly over the past 2 months. I thought you were the buyer... were you not? |
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I thought you were the buyer... were you not? No, it wasn't me. I purchased this from a coin shop in Tucson yesterday. I was at first supposing these were two different coins, but the harder I look, the more I come to the conclusion they're one and the same - or two identical forgeries! Colligo ergo sum
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10/31/2018 6:08 pm
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It's not the kind of coin that would warrant a forgery to the point of faking silver crystallization. Note the pattern above the brow of the lion, especially.
Well, not at my sold price at least. I'm scared to ask what the markup was....
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