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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2864224, member: 19463&quot;]Two of my recent acquisitions are small silvers of Kyzikos.&nbsp; I had one other one for several years.&nbsp; If anyone feels comfortable with these, please chime in. </p><p>My old one was a 0.74g boar forepart / roaring lion.&nbsp; There is a retrograde K above the lion.&nbsp; Colosseum Coin Exchange in 1988 called it an obol and I believe that is correct. [ATTACH=full]682990[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From my coin show last Friday came a 1.15g coin with no K and a tunny fish behind the boar.&nbsp; The flan of the previous coin makes it uncertain whether there was a tunny there or not.&nbsp; If you look at sales listings you will see coins of this weight called trihemiobols and/or diobols and coins closer to my 0.74g called obols and trihemiobols.&nbsp; I have no idea and am not aware of arguments one way or another. This example has a bold pattern of crystallization. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]683000[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The third coin is ex X6 collection and was sold as a hemiobol which is probably wrong since it weighs 0.24g which is closer to tetartemorion.&nbsp; It is just a well detailed tunny with no boar or lion.&nbsp; Considering the coin is only 7mm across, I don&#039;t think we could have fit on a big animal.&nbsp; It is dated 550-480 BC compared to the other two which were 480-450 BC.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]683014[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There have been many electrum coins from Kyzikos on the market lately.&nbsp; Who has something in any metal from the city?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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