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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8253765, member: 26430&quot;]Here&#039;s a Volusian that was a &quot;snack&quot; from the &quot;pick-bin&quot; at <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6511248" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6511248" rel="nofollow">AMCC 2 (Lot 470)</a>, previously JB (Edmonton) Collection:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454763[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of other &quot;snack&quot; size &amp; priced coins that are actually among my favorites of my primary collection (&quot;Modern Social Lives of Ancient Coins&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>First one is Winzer 16.5 (plate coin) from his 2005 book <i>Antike Portraitmünzen der Perser und Griechen aus vor-hellenistischer Zeit …</i> (and cited in <a href="https://www.academia.edu/17162928/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/17162928/" rel="nofollow">Nieswandt (2012)</a> &amp; other references). ~10mm, 0.65g.</p><p><br /></p><p>It kept going unsold at Künker auctions and they kept lowering the price (from 50 EUR at 312, 40 EUR at e-54, 30 at e-57). It finally went unsold for 20EUR (plus fees) at e-Auction 65 so I picked it up in the after-sale!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454764[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Similar story with this one, a tiny fraction from Rheggion from the Elvira Clain-Stefanelli Collection, which kept going unsold at Naville Numismatics. I didn&#039;t research it until after I bought it (~10GBP + fees per coin in a group lot).</p><p><br /></p><p>At only 7mm, 0.31g, it&#039;s actually a very rare <i>Hemilitron</i> (not the litra they thought it was); there are only a handful of published examples, and none with these control/field letters. Also left out of Naville&#039;s descriptions, it was illustrated Clain-Stefanelli&#039;s 1987 <i>RBN </i>article on &quot;On Some Fractional Silver Coinages of Sicily and Magna Graecia during the Fifth Century B.C.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1454765[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]1454769[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1454770[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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