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<p>[QUOTE="juris klavins, post: 4714661, member: 76693"]Bowling for drachmas <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1156101[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(From NGC Ancients article) :</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ccg-corporate-production/news-images/89001006%20-1.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ccg-corporate-production/news-images/89001006%20-1.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/ccg-corporate-production/news-images/89001006%20-1_tb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>It is only natural that coinage would be struck to commemorate this important religious, political, artistic, and athletic event. One example is this rare silver stater, thought to have been struck in the later 460s B.C., thus probably for the 79th or the 80th Olympiad. It features on the obverse an eagle flying left, and on the reverse Nike running with a wreath, presumably to crown an Olympic victor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="juris klavins, post: 4714661, member: 76693"]Bowling for drachmas :D [ATTACH=full]1156101[/ATTACH] (From NGC Ancients article) : [URL='https://s3.amazonaws.com/ccg-corporate-production/news-images/89001006%20-1.jpg'][IMG]https://s3.amazonaws.com/ccg-corporate-production/news-images/89001006%20-1_tb.jpg[/IMG][/URL] It is only natural that coinage would be struck to commemorate this important religious, political, artistic, and athletic event. One example is this rare silver stater, thought to have been struck in the later 460s B.C., thus probably for the 79th or the 80th Olympiad. It features on the obverse an eagle flying left, and on the reverse Nike running with a wreath, presumably to crown an Olympic victor.[/QUOTE]
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