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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 7699030, member: 91461&quot;]Wonderful boner... coin! That really is a stunner<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and great provenance <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>My first archaic is a much less detailed and more handled of the type:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1321391[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><u>Thracian Islands, Thasos</u></b> (c.500-480 B.C.E.), Silver Drachm, 3.4g 16 MM. Naked ithyphallic satyr in a kneeling- running position right, carrying off in his arms a nymph, who wears robes and raises her right hand in protest. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square (BMC 12; SNG Copenhagen 1016).Broad flan</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here he is without a date on Saturday night:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1321392[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><u>Islands off Thrace. Thasos</u></b> circa 525-463 BC. Obol AR, 10mm., 0,91g.</p><p>Naked satyr kneeling right / Quadripartite incuse square.</p><p>nearly very fine</p><p>SNG Ashmolean 3653; Rosen 144; Le Rider Thasos Group I &amp; pl. I, 4.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the most recent boner that I&#039;ve pulled (remember when that used to mean mistake I&#039;ve made):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1321395[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And I do happen to have a coin from the Vineyard collection:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1321393[/ATTACH]</p><p>EUBOIA. Histiaia. 3rd-2nd centuries BC. Tetrobol (Silver, 15 mm, 2.06 g, 9 h). Vine-wreathed head of nymph Histiaia to right, wearing pendant earring and necklace. Rev. IΣTIAIE-ΩN Nymph seated to right on stern of galley, holding stylis in her left hand and resting her right on the deck; on the side of the stern, wing; below to left, monogram, labrys. ANS 1944.100.24022. BCD Euboia -. Lovely style; well-struck and rather uncommon. Minor die break on reverse, otherwise, very fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the Vineyard Collection, ex Hirsch, March 2002 ,219 (part of lot). Ex: Nomos</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1321394[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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