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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1921956, member: 19463&quot;]The G&amp;N Pecunem also produced a couple small Greek silvers for me.&nbsp; The sale had a lot of nice little coins but I considered the start prices plus fees and postage too high to buy others.&nbsp; These two struck me for some reason.&nbsp; The big one (8x10mm, .34g) is a hemiobol of Tarsos during the time of Pharnabazos and Datames.&nbsp; I have the stater of the type on my favorites page so this little guy might have to be added to that page as a supporting player.&nbsp; The female head is slightly left of facing and surrounded by a very small circle of dots suggesting this coin was struck from special hemiobol or 1/24th stater dies rather than being just an underweight example of the more common obol (1/12 stater).&nbsp; The reverse is dished quite a bit and has a right facing bust of Aphrodite.&nbsp; I have not been able to find an example of a hemiobol of these types.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]330204[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Smaller yet is a 7mm 0.20g tetartemorion(?)&nbsp; from an uncertain location in Cilicia.&nbsp; The obverse shows Herakles with club behind his head and the lion skin tied around his neck if you look closely enough.&nbsp; The reverse is a facing lion with arrow in its mouth.&nbsp; This is not a particularly rare coin and not even that great an example but I found it cute enough for a minimum bid.&nbsp; Most, I assume, avoided it believing it to be chipped.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is hard to tell on these little things.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]330210[/ATTACH] </p><p>These little guys need careful attention if you are to see details or even get them right side up.&nbsp; Compare:</p><p><a href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&amp;ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&amp;ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&amp;CONTAINER_NAME=148&amp;ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=203&amp;ITEM_DESC=&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&amp;VIEW_TYPE=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&amp;ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&amp;ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&amp;CONTAINER_NAME=148&amp;ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=203&amp;ITEM_DESC=&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&amp;VIEW_TYPE=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&amp;ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&amp;ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&amp;CONTAINER_NAME=148&amp;ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=203&amp;ITEM_DESC=&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&amp;SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&amp;VIEW_TYPE=0</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I noted that neither of the ones in CNG&#039;s research area made their estimates and mine went cheap at Pecunem.&nbsp; I&#039;d think that the lion munching on an arrow would get some respect but I guess all who want the type must have one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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