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<p>[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 7803130, member: 82549"]Thing seems to be some confusion about the mint for the tiny AR tetartemorion with the roaring head of the lion on the obverse (facing either right or left) and in incuse bird on the reverse (both with and without dots and facing either direction).</p><p><br /></p><p>This example is attributed to <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5555261" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5555261" rel="nofollow">Miletos, in Ionia</a>, while this example is to <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7647663" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7647663" rel="nofollow">Mylasa, in Caria</a>. Is this debate still going on, or has opinion settled on one site over the other?</p><p><br /></p><p>I've received several of these in a bulk lot of Greek AR fractions. One of them weighs only 0.13g. Would that be considered a hemitetartemorion? The size is similar to the others in the 0.23-0.28g range, but the weight is about half.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gsimonel, post: 7803130, member: 82549"]Thing seems to be some confusion about the mint for the tiny AR tetartemorion with the roaring head of the lion on the obverse (facing either right or left) and in incuse bird on the reverse (both with and without dots and facing either direction). This example is attributed to [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5555261']Miletos, in Ionia[/URL], while this example is to [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7647663']Mylasa, in Caria[/URL]. Is this debate still going on, or has opinion settled on one site over the other? I've received several of these in a bulk lot of Greek AR fractions. One of them weighs only 0.13g. Would that be considered a hemitetartemorion? The size is similar to the others in the 0.23-0.28g range, but the weight is about half.[/QUOTE]
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