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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3839111, member: 98035&quot;]I had allotted pretty much my entire collecting budget to winning one of the two Saloninus Augustus coins from that auction and was soundly defeated. There were many nice and rare coins in that auction, but IMO there was too much offered at once for a very small base of serious collectors of that dynasty. Not many of us are wealthy enough to say &quot;I&#039;ll take it all!&quot; when too many rarities are offered in too short a time. I, personally, am interested only in a &quot;one each&quot; of that dynasty, although I admittedly have a number of Gallienus coins that I enjoy, particularly for the differences in the portraiture.</p><p><br /></p><p>For my own collection, I could fill a binder page with coins known from fewer than 10 examples. I will admit freely that a legend variant of a common emperor or a variety of an anonymous city-state issue is a lot less exciting than say an ephemeral Roman emperor known from only a few dozen coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back to the OP coin, I will say that I don&#039;t think I have ever seen that particular type before. Maybe a year and a half ago I managed to win two bulk lots of mostly Kyzikos minors for peanuts from Kairos Numismatics. It was mostly the lion/boar type but it did contain one rarity that I sold to a more avid collector of early Greek AR fractions</p><p><br /></p><p>Kyzikos AR Obol</p><p>Ca. 500-450 BC</p><p>Obv: Head of Rooster and tunny</p><p>Rev: Incuse</p><p>Perhaps 5-10 known?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1019219[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I got a price I was happy with, which was about a third of what a similar type had sold for a number of years ago @ CNG.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two of my favorite unique coins I haven&#039;t been able to part with:</p><p><br /></p><p>Aiolis, Kyme AR &quot;trihemiobol&quot; - only known example of its denomination</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1019223[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Cilicia, Kelenderis obol with an unknown pairing of Athena and the kneeling goat - Should be a horse or forepart of Pegasus. Athena is only present on earlier coins of Kelenderis, and only with Pegasus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1019224[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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