Finally my Agora and Frank Robinson wins today. I knew the Thessaly was small but it’s really tiny and detailed. Diobol, Nymph head 3/4 left/horse r; VF, toned, nice strong head of fine style. Ex BCD with his handwritten tag & photos. THEBES, Hemidrachm, 446-426 BC, Boeotian shield/ Kantharos, club above, S-2385 (£80); VF/F-VF, obv sl off-ctr but complete, medium tone. Then I got the Trajan provincial out and thought it would look interesting next to a quarter. Bithynia, Uncertain. Trajan. A.D. 98-117. AE 22 (22.80 mm, 6.53 g, 6 h). Laureate head of Trajan right / Eagle on globe. RPC 1152. Ex Frank Kovacs. Please add any comparison pics or similar coins.
You won some fine looking coins @H8_modern THESSALY, LARISSA AR Trihemiobol OBVERSE: Head of nymph Larissa three-quarter facing left in necklace, hair confined by fillet & floating loosely, with ampyx in front REVERSE: ΛAPI (Laris) above, horse feeding right. Struck at Larissa 395-344 BC .75g, 10mm SNG Cop 135 BOEOTIA FEDERAL COINAGE AR Hemidrachm OBVERSE: Boeotian shield REVERSE: Kantheros, club of Herakles above, BO to left, I and crescent to right Struck at Thespiae mint 336-315 BC 1.9g, 14mm SNG Copenhagen 176-177
very nice and detailed coins!.. i have also suffered from "size shock" too when receiving coins occasionally, when not paying too much attention to those variants.
Fine Boeotian sheilds, I want to add a hemidrachm some day. I did get a nice little bronze last year. Boeotia, Thebes 379-338 BC, AE10, 1.24g: Obv: Boeotian shield Rev: Trident. Lindgren 1517 (This coin). Lindgren plate coin And a little bronze provincial Trajan I picked up from JA sometime last year. Trajan, AD 98-117. Æ10, 8.6g, 12h. SYRIA, Cyrrhestica, Cyrrhus. Obv.: AVTOKP KAIC NEP TPAIANOS APIST CEB ΓEPM DAK ΠAΡΘI; Laureate head right. Rev.: KYPPHC/TWN in two lines; A below; all within wreath. Reference:Butcher 1; BMC 2; SNG Copenhagen 45 var. (B on reverse).
