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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 936582, member: 26430&quot;]<b>Good answer!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Yeah, it&#039;s really funny what you say about seeing the lion head with either orientation! We&#039;re neurologically programmed to see not only &quot;what we want,&quot; but simply &quot;faces&quot; (human, otherwise), in abstract images, so that&#039;s a great note.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Also agreed--not for sale! I would never sell anything unless I was absolutely positive. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Plus, my specific gravity measures were based on a pretty crude DIY tool. 1: an oral syringe to find when the water tension breaks on a 1/8 teaspoon that had perfectly straight walls and base, 2: using marks on a thin plastic tube; and using the average of five measures each--I actually blogged on the probability theory behind this elsewhere. The range was too wide to be reliable: 0.1-0.35, though probability/measurement theory suggests I can say what average is, there is a wide range of possible error +/-! Thanks Adolphe Quetelet the astronomer (1835) and the &quot;normal distribution&quot;! So definitely could be wrong.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Same Doug Smith as the one whose site I used (still use) to learn about ancient coins when I got into selling them in the early 2000s, I assume...? Not sure if we&#039;ve ever talked before, but I appreciate your reply. So unless David Sear himself comes down with a positive ID, I take your opinion as the gold (EL?) standard. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I didn&#039;t say anything to the seller at the time, because I didn&#039;t want to be one of &quot;those people,&quot; but maybe I&#039;m the only person to actually find a gold--well, possible electrum--coin in a bag of 1000. I think it&#039;s almost unanswerable....</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Is it really THAT overweight? I&#039;ve seen ranges of 2.3-2.9... There were different &quot;standards&quot; everywhere, right, and some places would&#039;ve weighed a hekte at 2.8, wouldn&#039;t they? I remember an academic-style paper on that--<b><span style="color: #1111cc">[PDF]</span></b> <a href="http://www.achemenet.com/ressources/souspresse/annonces/Samos-Konuk.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.achemenet.com/ressources/souspresse/annonces/Samos-Konuk.pdf" rel="nofollow"><font size="2"><span style="color: #551a8b">The Electrum Coinage of Samos in the Light of a Recent Hoard</span></font></a>-- though the link is broken now (still shows up in google, though). Euboic, Samian, Phocaic, Ionian standards, etc.? I think I understand this concept correctly, but I also noticed the heaviness as the first thing that made it seem like something other than a legit hekte.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Definitely just an &quot;educational&quot; coin, an oddity, that I&#039;ll keep in my permanent never-sell collection. Ancient fourree (sp?) has always been my guess.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Again, thanks for your opinion, it&#039;s highly appreciated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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