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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 24799479, member: 87809&quot;]My oldest is just a plain globular elektrum hemihekte (1/12th stater), bought at Forum Ancient Coins in 2019.</p><p><br /></p><p>Uncertain Ionian mint ca. 650 - 600 BC, period of the Artemis Find (Ephesus region? May have been, as Karwiese has suggested, a Lydian controlled mint in the vicinity of Ephesus, rather than a mint of Ephesus itself).</p><p><br /></p><p>7.7 mm, 1.168 g (on average 60% gold and 40% silver)</p><p>SNG Kayhan 676; SNG Von Aulock 7763; Rosen 324; Boston MFA 1750; Traité II -; Weidauer –</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: smooth plain globular surface</p><p>Rv.: incuse roughly square pyramidal punch;</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture courtesy Forum Ancient Coins</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1586773[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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