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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancientcoinguru, post: 2348023, member: 75563&quot;]Lol...I love your modern recreation of the crab headdress!&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>My coin of the Bretti was minted about 214-211 BC, belonging to the period of the Hannibalic occupation of Italy.&nbsp; It is unknown who issued this coin, but was issued perhaps from Lokroi.&nbsp; There is no crab on this coin....but perhaps the attribution is incorrect, and that is a crab below Zeus, instead of a star?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]477747[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]477748[/ATTACH] </p><p>AE half unit 3.75gm - 17 mm - h 8</p><p>Obv: Head of Nike left, NIKA in field </p><p>Rev: BPETTIΩN to left, Zeus standing right holding staff and hurling thunderbolt, cornucopia to right, star below</p><p>Ref: HN Italy 1982, SNG Cop 1681, SNG ANS 60. </p><p>Ex-ACR Auction 9, lot 74,&nbsp; Rome, April 29-30, 2014[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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