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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2666144, member: 51347&quot;]We discussed, and you determined this is not a MFB.</p><p><br /></p><p>But that strike error on the chin really makes it look like a beard...</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is incredibly tiny.&nbsp; Not my smallest coin, but it is SMALL:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]592551[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Uncertain of Western Asia Minor, ca. 5th c. BC, silver tetartermorion, 5mm, 0.15g</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Young male (female?) head r.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Forepart of bull r.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> Kayhan -</p><p><b>Grading:</b> VF+ , obv. o/c, slightly porous, toned, extremely rare</p><p><b>Comment:</b> This is an apparently unpublished type, with nothing matching the design in numerous references consulted. Lacking visible legends (and being almost certainly an anepigraphic type to begin with), the main clues would come from style, metrology and possible association with other types from the lot it came in. These are predominantly Western Asia Minor fractions (mainly in Attic or Milesian (hemi?)tetartemorion weight range) of the 5th c. BC. The forepart of bull with partly facing head is consistent with several types that K. Konuk in CNG Kayhan assigns to an &quot;uncertain mint of Karia&quot; - and more so than alternative depictions from, say, Magna Graecia or Cretan Gortyna - but they seldom appear facing right (cf. Kayhan 960) and even then invariably on larger denominations (cf. Kayhan 968). Above all, however, in those listings (which extensively cross-reference the related Keckman, Troxell, Rosen and Berry catalogs) there is no pairing with the present finely styled head, leaving this as another among the mysteries of Asia Minor fractional silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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