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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3855049, member: 57463"][ATTACH=full]1020967[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Obverse recumbant lion looking over back. Reverse incuse punches.</b></p><p>2.37 grams electrum one-sixth stater c. 550 BCE Miletos</p><p>British Museum Catalog Vol. III, No. 7: Ionia</p><p>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Von Aulock, #1796.</p><p>Ernest Babelon Trait Des Monnaies Grecques Et Romaines, plate I, 14 and I, 20.</p><p>Agnes Brett, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection</p><p>Weidenauer 129, 130</p><p>Nancy Waggoner, The Rosen Collection, Pozzi 2465</p><p>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, The Huharrem Kayhan Collection, Coin 442.</p><p><br /></p><p>None of those looks exactly like this. They all are individual examples of a type. I bought it from Gordon Andreas Singer at a Michigan State Numismatic Society show. The coin was misidentified; and being a specialist in medieval issues, he had no compelling interest in it. If I wanted it, it was mine, for about the same price as a common slabbed BU Morgan.</p><p><br /></p><p>My interests all coincided here. It was from the event horizon of the invention of coinage. It came from Miletos in the lifetime of Thales. It represented to me the confluence of mercantilism over farming, democracy over monarchy, philosophy over religion, the first formal proof in geometry, and the advent of the professional citizen-soldier from a time and place where those who voted for war were actually those who really fought the war. It hallmarks a saying from classical Greece: "Long ago, even Miletos was great." In other words, by 400 BCE, there existed a sense of history because by then, Miletos had been defeated, depopulated, and refounded with observably lesser status. But this coin was from the golden age.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I leave this planet (on an orbital tourist spaceship), this coin is coming with me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3855049, member: 57463"][ATTACH=full]1020967[/ATTACH] [B]Obverse recumbant lion looking over back. Reverse incuse punches.[/B] 2.37 grams electrum one-sixth stater c. 550 BCE Miletos British Museum Catalog Vol. III, No. 7: Ionia Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Von Aulock, #1796. Ernest Babelon Trait Des Monnaies Grecques Et Romaines, plate I, 14 and I, 20. Agnes Brett, Boston Museum of Fine Arts Collection Weidenauer 129, 130 Nancy Waggoner, The Rosen Collection, Pozzi 2465 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, The Huharrem Kayhan Collection, Coin 442. None of those looks exactly like this. They all are individual examples of a type. I bought it from Gordon Andreas Singer at a Michigan State Numismatic Society show. The coin was misidentified; and being a specialist in medieval issues, he had no compelling interest in it. If I wanted it, it was mine, for about the same price as a common slabbed BU Morgan. My interests all coincided here. It was from the event horizon of the invention of coinage. It came from Miletos in the lifetime of Thales. It represented to me the confluence of mercantilism over farming, democracy over monarchy, philosophy over religion, the first formal proof in geometry, and the advent of the professional citizen-soldier from a time and place where those who voted for war were actually those who really fought the war. It hallmarks a saying from classical Greece: "Long ago, even Miletos was great." In other words, by 400 BCE, there existed a sense of history because by then, Miletos had been defeated, depopulated, and refounded with observably lesser status. But this coin was from the golden age. When I leave this planet (on an orbital tourist spaceship), this coin is coming with me.[/QUOTE]
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