CILICIA. Mallos. Obol Obv: Bearded janiform head. Rev: Forepart of MFB right. SNG Levante 137 Next: a silver coin (not BI) from Lesbos [ATTACH]
Hmmm this might be challenging... So to avoid a deadlock, next: a coin from any city close to argos
Argos, c. 490-470 BC. Obol (Silver, 8mm, 0.91 g 12). Head of wolf to left. Rev. A, with a pellet below the crossbar, within a shallow incuse...
Well the capital is super detailed so I wouldn't mind the tail...I recently got a STARR II/III where the tip of the nose was off the flan but it...
Like this one: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4526495 You better cross check the SNG attribution though...I would not hold my breath...
Next time send them an email, don't phone! Whoever picked up was certainly a secretary who wanted to get rid of you. So now send them an email to...
Did you ask CNG? You paid them 300$ of commission so they could spend 5 minutes looking into this for you...
Congratulations! The ainos is coming from a recent Roma auction and Lanz sold one some years ago. I have seen this plant but unfortunately can't...
Nice coin, it's from Phaistos, Crete. The winged male is Talos, see here: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=94509
1 deca means 10 grams of silver. Thanks for reminding me of the story which I heard may years ago but forgot ever since.
I hope a coin expert did the cataloguing and there was a second person flavouring/sugar-coating the descriptions. But I am not holding my breath...
LOL; this reminds me of an Alexander III dekadrachm auctioned by ROMA, the description saying "Good. Extremely Rare, and a highly desirable coin...
The ancient greek word for it is "ημιωβόλιο". In English it should be pronounced as "imiovolio", putting the stress on the second "o" and all the...
Looks like the cataloguing was done by a salesperson or an ex-sommelier. :facepalm: A deeply toned example with an incredible cabinet nature,...
Most of the greek coins auctioned in Triton went inexplicably high. A few went quite low e.g. the tets of akragas or those of Mende. Some of the...
You are right; this is not STARR V, it is after V, in the early days of the mass coinage. The provenance noted is hilarious the least to say; a...
And you say you're not Clio? ;) Congrats; good HA got somebody else as I was getting tired of the 2 ladies with the tweety voices speaking ultra...
yes but that one had an NGC * on the slab. I tend to believe that HA has evolved into the main venue for japanese who only buy slabs, newbies,...
I am glad we both had different criteria to choose and avoided a clash :angelic:
What a coincidence my 2nd coin in 2020 was also a hekte from erythrai from the same auction. I chose it over yours because: 1. The punch is...
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