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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24892590, member: 26430&quot;]Nick -- what a fantastic little coin! Do you have the weight? (Hemi/Obol?)</p><p><br /></p><p>As a collector of Greek AR fractions, I believe strongly that some types are much better in miniature. I&#039;m sure this is among them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder how firm Lycia is? And/or whether any kind of alliance/League would make sense?</p><p><br /></p><p>Reminds me of the Lesbos, Methymna turtle fractions, matched w/ various other designs. (Incidentally, Lesbos had a strong tradition of alliance coinage...)</p><p><br /></p><p>Lebos&#039; turtle was *usually* on the rev. But yours is very similar to the obv. of Hemiobol type SNG Kayhan 96. (Same arrangement &amp; number of segments on shell [exactly ten], same linear &quot;border&quot; around shell, combination of segmented land-tortoise shell w/sea-turtle flipper-legs.) Below: the <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11720007" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=11720007" rel="nofollow">Coll. sans Pareille 817</a> specimen. (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=+%22sng+kayhan+96%22&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=+%22sng+kayhan+96%22&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=1" rel="nofollow">More ACSearch results</a>.)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>¡ NOT MY COIN !</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1599109[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s also an Obol that&#039;s been attributed in commerce to Cilicia, Mallos, with turtle &amp; *forepart* of man-headed bull (facing *left* nor right). Similar fabric maybe but different artistic style. A couple from CNG (&quot;Unpublished in the standard references, but cf....&quot;) <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9481497" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=9481497" rel="nofollow">here (CNG 2022)</a> = <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7811686" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7811686" rel="nofollow">Heritage (2021)</a> and <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3346050" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3346050" rel="nofollow">here (CNG 2016)</a>. There are a few others in acsearch from the budget auctions, e.g. <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8553446" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8553446" rel="nofollow">this one (DEMOS 2021) in better shape</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>¡ NOT MY COIN !</b></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1599108[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m curious about your coin. It&#039;s pretty awesome![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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