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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1824404, member: 57463&quot;]Why? I mean, it is a nice coin and all, but what makes it special?&nbsp; (If I may ask. Just curious....)</p><p><br /></p><p>Mine: Electrum from Miletos, about the time of the first coins. Recumbant lion (looking to your right over his shoulder). Incuse punched reverse.&nbsp; For me, it represents the origin, the beginning. And it is unique. The citations below are all to coins like this one, clearly in the same series, but visually different.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]299985[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]299984[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>2.37 grams electrum one-sixth stater c. 550 BCE Miletos</p><p>British Museum Catalog Vol. III, No. 7: Ionia</p><p>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Von Aulock, #1796.</p><p>Ernest Babelon Trait Des Monnaies Grecques Et Romaines, plate I, 14 and I, 20.</p><p>Agnes Brett, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection</p><p>Weidenauer 129, 130</p><p>Nancy Waggoner, The Rosen Collection, Pozzi 2465</p><p>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, The Huharrem Kayhan Collection, Coin 442.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]299991[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is a one-third stater from Vilmar Numismatics with the same kind of lion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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