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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3217571, member: 19463&quot;]I believe it is more than luck in some cases; it is sometimes almost a miracle.&nbsp; Nearly half of my new little Greeks have some question on the ID.&nbsp; Some are an uncertain city, some an uncertain denomination.&nbsp; You can choose to let that bother you or not.&nbsp; Larger coins are better documented in the literature partly because they are more common and were studied by previous generations who pretty much ignored the small things and studied the tetradrachms.&nbsp; Unfortunately, small coins are more likely to suffer from corrosion since a 1 mm pit is a tetradrachm hardly detracts but a 1 mm pit in a 5mm coin is humongous.&nbsp; I am able to ignore some of these problems to a greater degree than many people.&nbsp; I am more troubled by experts who publish their guesses as facts than not having all the answers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really like this one from the show group.&nbsp; It is attributed to an uncertain city in Caria.&nbsp; At 7mm and 0.13g it could&nbsp; be a hemitartemorion but I fail to find the type that small in the few resources I have checked so far. It came with three tickets from previous sales that did not agree on all details of date and denomination.&nbsp; One called it a hemiobol which is just wrong as I see it.&nbsp; I have my opinions, too, but they are just that.&nbsp; I consider it, pound for pound, one of my finer purchases. Of course it would take about 3500 of these to weigh a pound so that may be faint praise.&nbsp; The obverse shows two bull foreparts confronted making an X with their horns. Each bull contributes one foreleg and one horn to the design.&nbsp; The reverse has only one bull forepart so there is room for more detail like a single ear (or is that horn an edge view of the other ear???) and some back hair.&nbsp; Oddly, this bull has both forelegs.&nbsp; I would love to see any other specimens of this coin that anyone can find.&nbsp; I&#039;d even like to see any of the ones double or quadruple this weight which are not exactly common.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]836932[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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