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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2953063, member: 44316&quot;]In May we had a good thread on helmets:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-helmet-types.297306/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-helmet-types.297306/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/ancient-helmet-types.297306/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Many ancient coin types have helmets <b>on</b> the head of some god, emperor, or personification. Then in August we had a short thread on helmets <b>without</b> heads:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/helmet-without-a-head.301133/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/helmet-without-a-head.301133/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/helmet-without-a-head.301133/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Rather than resume that one I am starting this new thread with a newly-arrived cute Greek silver fraction:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]721752[/ATTACH]</p><p>Macedonia. King Philip V -(c. 187-179 BC) or Perseus (c. 179-168 BC) [The Romans defeated Perseus in 168.]</p><p>15 mm. 2.00 grams.</p><p>Macedonian shield with club and MA/KE on boss</p><p>Helmet left (with no head) with monograms either side.</p><p>Below to left, monogram of mint master: ZΩ. To right, star.</p><p>Hoover Handbook 3.1 324, page 136 &quot;believed to have been struck at Amphipolis&quot;</p><p>SNG Copenhagen 2 Macedonia 1285 (monograms the same) [1282-1288 are very similar, but with various monograms] &quot;Autonomous issues without King&#039;s name under Philip V and Perseus c. 185-168.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Show us a helmet![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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