surf and turf mini greek

i had exactly 35 bucks to spend on a coin after puchasing my recent russian 5 kopeks, and found this little guy from the same seller for exactly that amount. not one of the showcase coins of the type, but still pretty nice really..and i've been really wanting to break past the 2nd century bc, and beef up my greeks..so perfecto!



Mysia, Kyzikos

o: boar and big ol' tuna
r: lion in shallow incuse square
1.2 g, 11mm at widest..cute!
5th century bc

ok, so here's where i'm lost. ...

is this a hemiobol or a trihemiobol?

how about BMC 112? the attribution on these things is confusing as heck.

 

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Nice buy, especially for the price.

 

Guess you misplaced a dot ? For with a weight of 11.2 grams this would not be a fractional obol at all. (And must be made of uranium or heavier stuff.)

 

Typo... is it 1.12 gm?

If the weight is 1.12 gm, CNG's archives list similar coins as obols, not hemi- or tri-.

No idea.

 

yup, 1.2 g sorry..that would be impressive if 11.2 g i suppose. a megaobol!

 

With 1.2 grams, and allowing for some wear, i would say this would be a Diobol (1/12 of a Tetradrachm weight) ?

 

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Greek Coin Denominations


I give up. Label it "AR fractional, 1.2 gm" THCoins is probably correct though.

 

isn't it a mess TIF!

yeah, i think your right THC, i think it's a diobol. the seller had it attribulted as a hemibol...but i thought it was heavy for that.

 

Nice => super new addition, chrsmat ... bravo

I have an example as well ...


Mysia, Kyzikos




*awkward* .... man, I definitely have Tuna envy!!

 

i hate to brag...but i do have a pretty big tuna don't i?

i envy that reverse monogram however...that's pretty cool.

 

You're kinda like the Ron Jeremy of Mysian coins!!

 

I haven't heard this name in a while. I choked on my beer when I read that.

Here is my coin:


MYSIA AR Hemiobol
OBVERSE: Forepart of running boar left, tunny fish behind upward
REVERSE: Head of roaring lion left within incuse square, star above
Struck at Kysikos, 480-450BC
0.41 g, 9.5 mm
Sear 3850

 

Surf and turf, I like it! Here's my tritatemorion of Kyzikos.

 

ok, so that one is about 0.5 g. according to the table that TIF linked..correct JA?

 

Yes. 0.58g on that one. It's not as small as you'd think as it's quite thin: 9x12mm.

 

At 0.74g, mine seems an obol. I still don't know what the people who first spent the coin called it. The terms we use fit the Athenian standard and some towns used that standard while others used different standards and different names but collectors tend to force things into the names they find comfortable.

 

Very nice Chris, i need to get one of these too!! we use tuna chum for shrimp bait, went shrimping yesterday, they look great on a coin, but are much better on my plate..

 

mmmm, shrimp ...

Ionia Smyrna

 

Small Greek must not be as popular as I had thought. Several of the Pecunem lots closed unsold today but their estimates were pretty steep on the lower grade but rare items. I will be interested to see if any of you admit to buying any of them.

 

I only watched today but was tempted by several.