Quickie LordM newp poll, January, 2018

Coin A (on sale for $60; reduced from $75)

This one will look familiar to at least three other CT members.



Mysia, Lampsakos, 4th - 3rd Century BC
Silver Diobol, 9mm, 1.30 grams
Obverse: Female janiform head.
Reverse: LAM, Head of Athena right wearing crested Corinthian helmet.
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Coin B ($115)

Well, the seller's no mystery, thanks to the watermark. Haha.

Should I ask what happened to the other half of that bull... and horse?

Bisected beasties!



THESSALY, Pharkadon. Circa 440-400 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.72 g, 6h). The hero Thessalos, with petasos around neck, restraining forepart of bull right by band held around its head / Φ-Α-Ρ-Κ-ΑΔ-Ο (partially retrograde), forepart of horse right within incuse square. BCD Thessaly II 603; HGC 4, 292. VF, toned, some light marks near the edges on the obverse.

From the BCD Collection.

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I like the way you think.

But I won't get a Philly, unless I persuade ladymarcovan to bring me one when she comes home, or order one for delivery from Domino's...

 

There is always a bacon option. It's on the Philly, here.

(Or pureed in the kale smoothie, which might make that palatable, but oh, what a travesty that would be. The gods on Olympus would be angered by such a waste of good bacon.)

 

I will say that Coin A, despite the slightest bit of surface roughness, is very, very tempting at that price point. I love the contrasting grey toning and the janiform head. (It would be my first.)

(Autocorrect just tried to make that into "janitor head". LOL)

The one potential downside is that it is exceedingly tiny, at 9mm, but that hasn't deterred me from other purchases. I don't mind small coins so much. I look at my coins electronically on a screen more than I do in hand, which I know seems strange.

Coin B also seems appealing. I like the design and the toning. Sure, it has some faint old scratches, but those aren't severe enough to bother me. Seems a decent option for "barely above a Benjamin". I've heard of BCD, but not much. How respectable a pedigree is it? That must have been a huge collection, because I've seen a lot of coins from it.

 

And there would have been another coin in the mail with that, had I not already had a too-similar design in my collection already...

 

Thank you.

 

Indeed.

I just got these mysterious little Amirs of Sindh (?) ancients from @Alok Verma in India, as a kind surprise gift. They're only about 6mm in diameter. I just got them photographed today and intend to give them their own thread, to see if anyone can tell me anything about them.



As it happens, my first 2018 purchase happened to be a different little teeny-tiny 6mm Indian coin: this gold fanam of Tipu Sultan from AH 1200 (1786). I'm still waiting on it to arrive from Europe.

 

When I had those five little Sindh coppers loose in my hand this morning after photographing them, they actually had a pleasant feel to them. Like little seeds, but heavier.

 

Ahhh, yesss... here we go.




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