Tiny Mysia AE

I'm starting to appreciate tiny coins a little more. This one looks nicer in hand than any picture I've been able to take and it came with the tag from an old collection. Please post anything similar.

 

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Nice acquisition. Congrats. This is my only coin from Kyzikos

 

Cool little bronze @H8_modern

I only have one from that town:


Mysia Kyzikos AR Hemiobol 480-450 BCE 0.4g Boar-Lion Sear 3850
ex: @red_spork 's eclectic collection

 

A neat little coin

 

Cool tiny coin. Here is mine



It's not the size that counts

 

LOL, your lion has a great snarl! Mine looks like he is ready to throw-up!

 

Nice little bronze.

 

Mine looks like he threw up and still has the 'dry heaves' LOL

 

LOL, that is why I don't have cats: they hack and hurl hairballs...

 

But your pig already has an apple in it's mouth. Ready for the spit!

 

This one has a weird caduceus instead of a tripod:

Kyzikos AE20 5.33g 1st cent AD
Obverse: Head of Kore right, grain ear in hair; within a wreath of grain.
Reverse: K-Y/ZI; caduceus, in the center of which is a gorgoneion, the handle is made of a club, crescent above, tunny below, monogram right; all within a laurel wreath.
RPC I 2240; Von Fritze 45, pl. iii, 5; SNG Copenhagen 86; BMC Mysia pg. 40, 170; SNG von Aulock 1245

Like mine, the Z in KYZI looks weird on yours. I think it is the I-shaped Z on both our coins. Your tag shows it as the three-horizontal-lines Z. What do you think?

 

Mmmm, ribs. Don't know which I like more, coins or roasted pig.

 

H8 => congrats on scoring that sweet OP-addition

Ummm, I don't have an example like your OP-example, but I do have a pretty cool Kyzikos offering (wanna see it?)

Mysia, Kyzikos, AE24
200-100 BC
Diameter: 24 mm
Weight: 5.44 grams
Obverse: KYZI-KHWN to left and right of lit torch
Reverse: Bull butting right
BMC Mysia p.39, 164; SNG Cop 79
Nice tone