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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3546541, member: 76194&quot;][USER=76086]@Ken Dorney[/USER]&nbsp; I definitely do not mind the Greek market being soft. Over the last few months I&#039;ve been able to pick some extremely rare Greek fractional silver for just a few hundred bucks per coin (around $200 a piece). Had these been Roman Republic, I would have probably had to pay around $850 or more a piece because of the rarity factor.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite is this extremely rare variety from Abacaenum. Overall, only 32 have come up for auction in the last 15 years that I&#039;ve been able to find (including several instances of the same coin being auctioned twice or more during that period). That&#039;s also including all variations, though my specimen seems to be one of the rarer ones of the different varieties, only coming up for auction a handful of times. Vcois only has two on sale right now...real dogs though so I wouldn&#039;t bother.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]942582[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>AR litra</p><p>Abacaenum (Tripi, Sicily) 430-420 BCE</p><p>weight 0.857g, maximum diameter 12.6mm</p><p>obverse: laureate bearded male head right; reverse: boar or sow standing right, acorn in the lower right field, ABAK/AINI, starting in exergue, ending retrograde above, linear border; <b>very rare</b></p><p>SNG ANS 897 (same dies); HGC 2 10 corr. (R2, same dies); Weber 1169; SNG Sicily p. 1, 2 var. (ABA/KAIN); SNG Fitz 883 var. (same)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now is the time to shop for rarer fractional Greeks, while no one else cares much for them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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