Tiny unpublished Greek from Kyzikos

Kozekiss

 

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Hi,

I think I have acquired such hemiobol with Attis on obverse and the quartipartite incuse on the reverse. It was bought from Savoca-Coins from a rather mere price. I have seen common Achaemenid sigloi with more invested bidding wars than this hemiobol.

Funny to discover it is a rare type afterwards. The original reason that motivated me to procure that coin is that it was minted during Achaemenid occupation of Phrygia. Hence, a satrapal coin. Plus, Attis looked like a smurf...

It seems there is an electrum counterpart with a similar die.

 

Yup, getting less rare by the minute . Since I picked mine up about a year ago, I've seen a couple being sold, in varying condition, so there are likely to be more field finds to be discovered. Yours is very nice! Fractional silver gets very little love from the market, so happily can be bought on the cheap most of the time.

 

Great coin, Zumbly.
I associate the 'veiled' versions as being 'posthumous'. Would that be the case here?
I think that this is my only Myzia Kyzikos . . . . very common but well defined.
MYSIA KYZIKOS HEMIOBOL LION / BOAR STAR STERN ASIA TUNNY TUNA



(Snap - Bing, Chris, Steve.)

 

A show and tell thread I can take part in. Yay!

Here's my lion/boar hemiobol:



As always, awesome coins!

Erin

 

So many great coins in this thread. Napata's especially!

Kyzikos is as close as I've gotten to choosing an area of focus.. maybe this will motivate me to try to take some pictures..

I will try to post some tonight (and THIS post will hopefully keep me accountable).

...and if anyone knows of books that would cover Kyzikos, especially for the little coins, that have a price in the double-digits it would be awesome to hear about them!

 

OK... you guys make the photo thing look easy. Hats off to you. Here's my two favorite Kyzikos.

This one's not much to look at, but it was my first coin with an incuse punch reverse and I like how basic/rudimentary both sides are:



Kyzikos, Mysia
550-500 BC
Obv: Two tunny, one above the other.
Rev: Rough incuse punch, possibly quadripartite.
.43 g
9mm

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On this next one I love that the head of the tunny has the spine sticking out its back. That along with the other tunny in its mouth make it about as gory as you can get for a fish-themed coin.



Kyzikos, Mysia
600-525 BC
Obv: Head of tunny left with smaller tunny in its mouth.
Rev: Quadripartite incuse square.
.45 g
Smaller than a penny, larger than one piece of rice


The boar/lion Kyzikos was my first silver ancient and I've kind of had a soft spot for the little guys ever since.

 

Look at all of those Tunny Fish. Perhaps they should get their own thread????
Anyone think so?

 

That's all I need to hear...

 

Here are a couple Kyzikos I either own or have owned in the past.

Mysia, Kyzikos EL 1/12 Stater. Circa 500-450 BC. (1.33g, 11mm.) Female head left, wearing circular earring and necklace, hair bound in sakkos, tunny fish left below / Quadripartite incuse square. Unpublished in the standard references, for type cf. von Fritze 106 (1/6 Stater).


MYSIA, Kyzikos. EL Hekte – Sixth Stater,Circa 500-450 BC. (10mm, 2.64g). Nude male kneeling left, holding tunny fish by its tail / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 112

MYSIA, Kyzikos.EL Hemihekte, 1/12 stater, 600-550 B.C. (7mm, 1.31 g). Head of boar right, holding tunny fish in mouth / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 34

MYSIA, Kyzikos.Circa 450-400 BC. AR Hemiobol (7mm, 0.18g). Forepart of boar left. / Two tunny fish in opposite directions, one atop the other. Von Fritze II 17. Rare.


It is a shame, I had a number of other interesting ones, or very nice quality ones, but I can't find any pics right now. I like the various tunny types.

Nathan

 

Not the ones I was looking for, but dug these up:

 

Wonderful posts!!

But I'll refrain from posting another boar, lion and tunny example.

 

Is that a mis-attribution from Numismatik Naumann?

https://www.pecunem.com/auction-27/lot-252

That really looks like the head of the Phrygian god Attis instead.