Ancients => Tunny Fish for Lunch!!

Yes, I've scored myself a tasty tunny fish morsel for this afternoon's snack!!

It's a cute lil' fella ...

Mysia, Kyzikos AR Hemiobol
Date: 600-480 BC
Diameter: 6.51 mm
Weight: 0.23 grams
Obverse: Tunny fish right
Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square
References:
Other: Some deposits





Please post anything that seems fitting:

- coins from Kyzikos ... or Mysia in general
- tunny fish ... or any fish in general
- post photos of today's snack ... or your favourite snack in general
- *whatev*

 

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Nice little snack.

 

Here is another one of my humble Mysia, Kyzikos examples ...

Mysia, Kyzikos AR Obol
525-475 BC.
Diameter: 10 mm
Weight: 0.73grams
Obverse: Forepart of boar left; tunny behind.
Reverse: Head of lion left, K before; all in incuse square.
SNG France: 380, SNG Von Aulock 1215





I'm fairly sure that this my only other tunny fish (and it is pretty weak compared to a lot of other specimens that I've seen) .... "tunny envy"

 

Way cool. Start collecting fish just for the halibut.

 

I smell something fishy, and it ain't a stinky, muddy wild boar.

 

Wow Steve, that is spectacular

 

Thanks, Pish ... yup, it's pretty simple but it's pretty cool (and at a nice price)

 

Just don't microwave it!

 

Jango ... is that a cool right-facing boar? (thanks for posting both of your neat examples)

 

Hey, I have a tunny fish. Just got it in the mail yesterday so this is the dealers picture. You can tune a guitar but you can't tune a fish.

 

alde => that's awesome!! (you rock)

Oh, and your coin is really top-notch as well ... cheers

 

I like those little hemiobols. Don't have any Kyzikos though, yet anyway

 

I will match your tunny fish and raise you a crab.

 

Hard to believe, such good condition at 600-480 BC, fantastic pickup stevex6, I only have a tiny bit of seafood on a coin crab and crayfish, SICILY. Akragas. Hemilitron or Hexonkion (Circa 425/0-410/06 BC) AE 28.

 

This is a really rare type featuring a tuny at the base of Apollo's neck:

Miletopolis, Mysia, Civic coinage, 4th century BC. AE11. Obv: Laureate head of Apollo right; below, tunny right. Rev: MYLH clockwise, Bull standing left. SNG France 1301 corr (Tunny not described). Rare.

 

Wow => that's an awesome example ... thanks for posting, Nicholas (very cool)

 

Before I lay-down my seafood examples, I'd best exhaust my Mysia Kyzikos coins first ...

=> here is a very cool coin ... it has great eye-appeal (better in-hand)



Mysia, Kyzikos, AE24

200-100 BC
Lit Torch & Butting Bull

 

I'd call that the best tiny tunny I've seen. Second best might be that one on alde's coin but it really suffers from being crowded by big pig.

 

Was putting a tunny fish, a shrimp, an octopus, a crab or a boar on a coin a way of thanking the gods for a food source? I guess we will never know for sure.

 

Not that I eye-up the other boys, but I have noticed that chrsmat is packin' a pretty hefty tunny (hey, I'm just sayin' ... I hope he gets a chance to post his big-fish)