Really tiny! from Lydia

Here is a teeny-weeny(not a polka dot bikini!) 1/12 EL Stater (Hemihekte) from Lydia.
Issued circa 650BC by King Alyattes. 8mm/ 1.22 grams

 

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Your tiny chunk is awesome!

 

Thanks, one thing that I am puzzled by, why do the Lions in Lydia have a nob on their nose!

 

I may be completely off track but I wonder if that is related to the Royal Warts seen on Parthian kings. I do not know when it started but at some point such growths were considered signs of power.

 

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Chris

 

Nice OP-example, panzerdawg

=> here is my only Lydia example ...



... one of my favourite coins

 

That is the classical lion/bull design!

 

Neat little coins

 

Very old coin, in magnificent condition!

 

I'd love to get ahold of one of these 6-7th century BCE Lydian coins, just because they're some of the first coins ever minted. I've seen one or two for sale on VCoins, but I'm not prepared to spend the money just yet.

 

AV 1/12 Stater Kroisos 575BC Lydia/ defeated in battle by Cyrus the Great of Persia

 

I regret that I have no Ancients in gold... yet... However, I only have this bronze from Lydia:



Hierocaesareia, Lydia
AE15 3.22g.
CA 1st C. CE
Obv: draped bust of Artemis Persica
Rev: IEPO-[KAICA-R]EWN, Artemis standing right, left knee on the back of a stag, grasping it by its antlers.
RPC I 2391; BMC 3-4; Imhoof LS 10-11; Mionnet Supp. VII, 165.

 

I am in the other boat....I have NO ancient AR/AE coins/yet. But I am starting right now into Imperial Roman AR coins....

 

My tiny example is a 'budget' example from Mysia, just north of Lydia....and I grabbed it simply because it's one of the oldest examples of coinage with the typical Boar/Tunney and lion devices----hemiobol, 550 BC.

 

I love the designs, seems these earliest of coins had such a neat array animals/Gods/Mythical beasts on them! All of them very rare....these coins are very underpriced....lucky for us! When you compare to US coinage, ex: 1933 Double Eagles there are now 2+1+10=13 specimens. Price 7 MILLION$. Your coin, probably less then 10 known.

 

That is from not washing your hands.

 

Way cool Mikey!

I got one of those too, and I captured it from a fellow CT buddy!


Mysia, Kyzicus
AR hemiobol
(0.4g)
480-450 BCE
Obv: Forepart of running boar left, tunny fish behind upward.
Rev: Head of roaring lion left within incuse square.
Sear 3850

 

Seems these guys really like "Tunny" fish. What is a "Tunny fish" Tuna?

 

Yep!!! At least that's what I discovered when I googled it a few months ago...

 

I think you are right... kinda an ancients alternative description of a Tuna.