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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jay GT4, post: 7674308, member: 88526&quot;]Hi everyone.&nbsp; I posted this on Forum but with all the site updates there weren&#039;t many responses....</p><p><br /></p><p>I got this coin a few months ago and in hand it looks like electrum.&nbsp; The problem is, this type doesn&#039;t exist in any of the references I have or could find online as electrum.&nbsp; It is the same size and weight as an AR tetartemorion but the color of the metal points to electrum.&nbsp; At present it&#039;s difficult getting an XRF done (although that may not be conclusive either) but I was hoping another pair of eyes may be able to shed some light on this tiny coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a pretty accurate picture of how it looks in hand, maybe a bit brighter:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1318316[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">Forepart of lion left</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Bird (eagle or owl?) standing left within incuse square.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">Lydia, uncertain</font></p><p><font size="5">6th Century BCE</font></p><p><font size="5">Electrum? </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">4-5mm; 0.21g</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p>A similar AR:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1318317[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="5">Ionia. Miletos circa 525-475 BC.</font></p><p><font size="5">Tetartemorion AR</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">4 mm, 0,23 g</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">And perhaps the bigger brother in electrum (though the reverse incuse punch is different:</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1318318[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>LYDIA, Uncertain. </b>6th century BC. EL Hemihekte – Twelfth Stater (7.5mm, 1.18 g). Forepart of lion left / Bird (eagle or owl?) standing left within incuse square. Spier p. 332, 11 (A7/P4) = Traité I 53 = J.P. Six, “Monnaies grecques, inédites et incertaines” in <i>NC</i> 1890, p. 247, 1 (same dies); Triton XVII, lot 324 (same dies); cf. Konuk &amp; Lorber Fig. 20 (hekte, same obv. die and one rev. punch); cf. Triton XIV, lot 318 (same). Near VF. Extremely rare.</font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p>Thanks in advance[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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