This weekend ANoob & I attended the Liberty Coin Show in West Haven, Connecticut. A mutual friend met us at the show & gave us each a meteorite. ANoob got a piece of iron meteorite from the big crater in Arizona & I received a more common rock type (basically star-dust from the beginning of the Universe). It’s not everyday that someone just hands you a meteorite. I'll post photos in the Rock & Mineral thread. Now to the coins: This first acquisition is pretty old. It includes a running archaic-style satyr on a Thasos coin. It weighs-in at 1.12 grams which makes it an obol right? THRACE, Thasos AR Obol 525 – 463 B.C. 1.12 grams, 11 mm Obv: Running Archaic-style Satyr Rev: Quadripartite incuse square Grade: Toned VF centered & attractive Other: Rosen 144 from Allen Berman 3/19, previously Pegasi The second coin has a very clear lion’s scalp facing. This Magna Graecia coin weighs 0.81 grams making it a silver litra right? BRUTTIUM, Rhegium AR Litra Before 387 B.C. 0.81 grams, 11 mm Obv: Lion scalp facing Rev: PH within olive spray Grade: Nicely toned VF Other: SNG.ANS.670. From Allen Berman 3/19 previously Pegasi Thanks for letting me share the new coins. Do you have something running, scalpy, or from Thasos or Rhegium? Please post ‘em if you got ‘em.
Nice job on the Archaic Satyr @Collect89 ! And the Bruttium is a tasty little morsel too... Here are mine: Satyr - Thasos, the Next Generation Thasos AR TriHemiObol Satyr running Kulix Amphora 411-350BCE 0.69g 12mm SNGCop 1030 Recently absconded from the @Bing collection (to be purveyed soon) Facing Lion Bruttium Rhegion 415-387 BCE AE 11mm 2.46g Facing lion hd - Laureate hd of Apollo L SNG ANS 697 var
Love the archaic style of that Thasos obol, Collect. Stater in later Classical style for comparison. THRACE, Thasos AR Stater. 8.52g, 21mm. Circa 412-404 BC. Le Rider, Thasiennes 6; HGC 6, 334. O: Satyr advancing right, carrying off protesting nymph; A to right. R: Quadripartite incuse square.
