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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1850871, member: 42773&quot;]This was suggested by TIF in another thread, so I thought I&#039;d instigate it. Post your favorite one or two coins from every century. Let&#039;s start with the 5th century BC (and earlier) to give everyone a chance to jump in - I don&#039;t expect most of us have a drawer-full of Lydian electrum staters, but if you&#039;ve got one, post it! Coins only, no proto-money please.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s go with three days per century and tell us something interesting about your coin(s) or provide a link to more information. These show-and-tell threads get tedious, at least for me, when you&#039;re scrolling though pages and pages of images and learning nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll start with a tritatemorion of Kyzikos featuring the forepart of a a running boar, a tunny fish (tuna), and a roaring lion. 9 by 12 mm, 0.56 g, dated to 480-450 BC, ex Sidney Mygind. A distinctive design of these pieces includes three animals on one one coin, and this denomination, as small as it is, wasn&#039;t the smallest. Kyzikos also issued decidedly lilliputian tetartemorions.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s29.postimg.org/muckg1gg7/trita1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Wiki has a decent and brief overview of the ancient city of Cyzicus here...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyzicus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyzicus" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyzicus</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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