Ancients => Obol-Obol-Obol => 0.60 grams of raw power!!

Really, folks, when a coin is under 10mm and photographed at at 20 times its actual size, a perfect specimen will look a little 'textured'. This obol's fault IMHO is the obverse centering. The reverse is great. Sure there are perfect FDC obols but they are 100 times harder to find than mint state tetradrachms. Obols actually circulated on a daily basis and were damaged by hand and mouth while many big silvers spent antiquity in a pot of their peers protected from the ravages of time. I love little silver like obols but I love fractions of obols even more.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/microdigital.html

 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triptolemos

... cool ...

Thanks Windchild

 

Doug => great link (this time there was actually a link)



Thanks for chiming in!!

 

The clarity of the microscope shots is unreal.

 

I was talking about the non-Eleusinian Triptolemos.


Specifically, the Sicilian myths where Persephone-Tanit was the 'milk-sister' of Triptolemos