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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A very common type for which I already had multiple examples, but I felt compelled to pick this one up on account of its being relatively unworn and not so obviously cleaned as many others I've examined. Weight comes in at 1.14 gtams.   Colligo ergo sum
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United States
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Great example.  |
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 United States
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Very nice @LC! Here is a hemiobol with a similar design that I picked up from a CCF member:   "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I love the style on that lion! Like Spence, mine is also a hemiobol - I have a diobol, but not imaged yet  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Finn235 - What I especially like about your specimen is that you can really clearly see the tunny.
Colligo ergo sum
Edited by Lucky Cuss
09/18/2019 08:32 am
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United States
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Very nice coins. The only coin that I have is this Stater with the worn reverse @9 grams.   |
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United States
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As I have always said,
1. People ate Tunny fish with oil and bread guaranteed.
2. Oil in a big jar with one egg white is mayonnaise, egg yoke or not. So that is 95% oil.
3. Tunny fish of old is exactly the same genetic creature as Tuna fish today.
So our connection to the tuna fish sandwich is eternal and quite ancient!
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United Kingdom
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The OP coin seems to have quite a tubby tummy on the boar (I wasn't sure about that but we can see that there is a bit of meat on some of these coins in that area) The other side of the coin is very attractive.  Edited by DavidUK
09/18/2019 03:51 am
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Russian Federation
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My own Kyzikos hemiobol example isn't anywhere near as nice as the other examples posted here... but it's my only 5th century BC coin, and, IIRC, the second smallest coin in my collection (the first smallest being a particularly tiny wire kopek of Peter the Great).   As mentioned, it's tiny - 9 mm, and about 0.34 grams; as it happens, I just re-weighed it again - I no longer remembered what it came out to on the good scale, and only found posts where I used some primitive methods* and estimated 0.37 grams (or, rather, "between 0.33 and 0.40, let's say 0.37 because that's what in the catalog"). Also, in retrospect, my photos suck. Might try to make new pics later. *) Balance a ruler over an AA battery, then use some known counterweights - Soviet kopeks work well - and the law of the lever. This is usually only accurate to 0.05 grams or worse; for the "0.33-0.40" estimate I used several different counterweights and compared the results. |
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United States
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Here's another of mine, an obol struck on a pretty irregular flan, but you can make out the tunny on this one as well.   Colligo ergo sum
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Australia
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0.14 of a gram. That's pretty tiny.
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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These tiny Mysian silver coins have an incredible amount of detail. Little masterpieces, and mostly of fantasy creatures. The CNG auctions always have a few.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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03/10/2021 2:26 pm
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United Kingdom
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The amount of detail remaining on these tiny coins is amazing. Every one a gem.  |
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