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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Napata, post: 2353913, member: 76197&quot;]<p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><span style="color: #0000ff">Two New Tetartemorions</span></font></p><p><br /></p><p>The region of Cilicia offers quite an array of cute tetarmorions. This new one displaying the Achaemenid iconography (again!) has for reverse the head of Athena wearing the Attic helmet. By reason of its condition, <a href="https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=2013&amp;category=41077&amp;lot=1744817" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sixbid.com/browse.html?auction=2013&amp;category=41077&amp;lot=1744817" rel="nofollow">Numismatik Lanz</a> couldn&#039;t sell it even at 150 euro back then in June 2015. Apparently, this coin ended up at the hands of Savoca-coins where I could buy it for half the price. It is always nice to review the handover of a coin through many coin firms as it suggestively enhances its authenticity.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/jLbYsAb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Troxell &amp; Kagan Type 12. I have attached the article in a prior post.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, from my personal database, I gathered all instances of this coin.</p><p>Those bounded by a green rectangle are special cases where Athena faces right. The die-engravers (a.k.a. celators) must have made a mistake in those rare cases.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/SiAQrIH.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">==============================================</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Savoca-coins is certainly an interesting source of little rarities or uncommon coins. Indeed, due to the bad condition, little coins are often tagged as &quot;Uncertain&quot;. Lack of identification leads to interesting deals albeit this one must have been identified by my contenders just as I did.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/1AARjz1.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin itself really looks like a very small denomination of royal Achaemenid sigloi series.</p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/roMMqyo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I gather all examples from my personal database and it really looks like either a 1/32 or 1/24 of siglos (Type IV). It tends to be the latter.</p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/GRtBcJb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is interesting to obverse how the first coin (tetartemorion Troxell &amp; Kagan #12) has such quality of details on a tiny flan while the second (1/24 siglos) has a very poor design for a flan of the same scale. It is almost burlesque to represent the grandeur of the Great King of an empire with this second coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, for the past months, I have also missed nice other fractional sigloi where competition was real (or rather I was too stingy). The second was my favorite and I still regret losing it.</p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/ncANLpp.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/s1mbQPd.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/HkIjqRQ.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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