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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 2865222, member: 74834&quot;]Great that you are giving attention to these fascinating archaic type of small change from Cyzicus, the peninsula town in the Sea of Marmara. I have two hemiobols (weighing .36 and .38 gr, 9 mm diameter) with the boar protome at one side and the roaring lion on the other. These coins are not rare, they came with dozens of the like in a few waves at auction, maybe 100 or 200 in 2017. </p><p><br /></p><p>I bought them because they are (in my eyes) great little works of strong art, 2500 years old, from our forefathers in their old world that is hard to imagine. </p><p><br /></p><p>The left one in my picture has a boar without any tunnies and a lion under a rosette. The right one has a boar with an inverted K on its side. But over its lion (that&#039;s a bit pitted) is a mysterious animal, called a panther in the description, but to me it looks more like a rodent. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]683406[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]683407[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The rodent in detail: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]683408[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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