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kinda cool, eh?

 

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Little Lesbos Lion:

Pretty Pigasus:
LESBOS, Mytilene
EL Heckte - (Pigasus)
521-478 B.C.
2.55 grams, 10 mm
Obv: Winged boar facing right,
Rev: Head of Roaring Lion right
Grade: good Fine with decent
centering. Incuse roaring lion is
well preserved (inverse relief) &
obverse boar’s head is worn.
Other: From Eye Appealing 4/2015
ex Heritage 2014

 

Here you go:

Auction verbiage:CEYLON (SRI LANKA). Period of the Chola Invasion. Circa 990-1070. AV Kahavanu (20mm, 4.31 g, 2h). “Lord of Sri Lanka,” king reclining to right, holding aloft a sankh shell / King standing facing right, holding aloft a lotus; altar, flame, shell, pellets-in-annulets, and lotus in fields. Friedberg 1; Mitchiner, Non-Islamic 825. VF.

I think psychedelic is the best word I can think of to describe this coin.

 

A great coin, AN, and an educational read! Thank you.

 

Wow looks like someone made the big time..

 

Anoob you got a featured thread!

 

Whaaa...

 

Well-deserved in my opinion. It's certainly not a coin you see everyday, or a civilization that many have even heard of. We are all, so many of us, stuck in the Western World - myself included. Well, at least I venture out to Arabia quite frequently.

 

Speech! Speech! Speech!

 

Huh? => well, I'm glad that I decided to go back and finish-off readin' it!!

Congrats

... nooborn must be very proud?

 

This was a great read; thanks for sharing. I really like the coin(s).

 

Thanks for taking the time to sit through it. I hope you all enjoyed reading it as I did writing it.