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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4314161, member: 19463&quot;]I have shown mine before - at least the ones I like best - but since you asked, here are ten Athenian minors.</p><p><br /></p><p>First are the obols.&nbsp; They are most common after the tetradrachms and come in a wide variety of styles from different time periods.&nbsp; I really need to study up on the dating of these. The first is my oldest from the three separate tail feather period.&nbsp; I bought it from NFA which is a dealer I really miss.&nbsp; Most of their patrons wanted mint state dekadrachms so you could get a deal on the lesser coins in their sales even when they were rarities.&nbsp; 0.7g&nbsp; The coins with weights only in tenths date back to when I only had a scale that did one decimal place.&nbsp; I really should reweigh them all.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096974[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Second is my obol which my imagination believes shows teeth marks from being bitten while carried in a mouth.&nbsp; OK, maybe it is just a dent but it looks like someone bit it on Athena&#039;s cheek.&nbsp; I need a better photo.&nbsp; When will I find time with so much nothing to do?&nbsp; 0.6g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096973[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I always liked the face on this one. 0.6g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096971[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Also ran obol:</p><p>0.6g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096972[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A hemiobol is distinguished only by weight but they are a lot harder to find.&nbsp; 0.35g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096975[/ATTACH] </p><p>Other denominations are harder to find.&nbsp; At 1.98g, this triobol is a worn down fatcat but about 3x the normal obol. [ATTACH=full]1096976[/ATTACH] </p><p>The tritartemorion weighs 0.5g and shows one crescent for each 1/4 obol of its value.&nbsp; This coin came from the same NFA sale that brought me the three feather obol.&nbsp; That was a good sale for me.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096977[/ATTACH] </p><p>The single crescent denotes a 1/4 obol.&nbsp; I have seen these with at least some of the face but I was not about to pass up this one. It is almost all crest (not to be confused with &#039;full crest&#039;). </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096978[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My two owl bronze should be 15mm but was struck on a 12mm flan weighing 3.0g.&nbsp; Don&#039;t you hate it when one of your owls gets pushy and shoves the other off the flan?&nbsp; Svoronos illustrates 34 of these but did not bother to weigh the bronzes so I have no idea what it should weigh.&nbsp; The few I have seen suggest this is about right. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096980[/ATTACH] </p><p>Tenth of my allowable dose for this thread is my only other Athenian bronze.&nbsp; It shows Zeus hurling a thunderbolt and has something behind him which is not obvoius to me. The dealer I bought it from called it wheat.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see it but I dont ahave a better answer either. Svoronos had three of them (81, 49-51) but did not bother to tell anything except which museum had the coin.&nbsp; My AE19 weighs 6.0g or double the two owls but this type is considerably later so I don&#039;t know if this is a dichalkon to the owls&#039; chalkon or not.&nbsp; I really get the impression that most dealers and scholars would rather study dekadrachms.&nbsp; I wish they would send me a bag full of Athenian bronzes on &#039;long term&#039; loan.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1096979[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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