When I got home from another day of dealing with leaves/ I decided to check Heritage Auction site for after auction buys(unsold stuff) I noted a wee little AV 1/10 Stater from Cyrenaica for 800+fees. I could not resist obv. Head of Camelus rev. Head of Libya....Country name today. 8mm./ 0.80g. Quality AU strike 5.5/surface 3.5 Kyrene Mint At this time 331-13BC Cyrenaica was under the Ptolomaic Rulers.
Nice. Yes, it is a little difficult to see, but these are tiny coins. I hope to add a nice AV or EL coin to my collection next year!
There's a translucent inner ring as well as the white part of the holder. Not to start the slab vs no slabs for ancients debate again, but this particular one seems like a good one to slab. How something this tiny has not been lost over the millennia is amazing to me. Interesting piece.
You're slipping, @panzerman. That one ... isn't MS! *gasp!* There it goes, dragging down the quality of your collection. You should not let that happen, and should send it to me forthwith, to prevent such a catastrophe.
PS- seriously, though, I like how they put that in a non-prong holder. It's much less distracting that way.
Very cool!! It still amazes me how much detail these tiny coins can have---the obverse is terrific and although not MS, it's gold and I'll accept it as next years SS gift
I think these guys are really tough to get in perfect quality. If CNG would auction off my collection/ probably only 200 would rate their FDC grade/ Heritage Aictions would have them all "slabbed", end result 750 would be MS grade. Many of the CNG "Adam's" coins were re-auctioned by Heritage/ CNG grade EF became MS-63/ EF-CH =MS65 EF-SUPBERB were MS-66/67/68! There is one Transylvania 1594 coin slabbed as a MS-65/ I got one from Hungarian Auction that was rated FDC/ the 65 would have been a GOOD EF.
