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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8122416, member: 118780&quot;]That&#039;s a very nice imitative! Also sharp how you picked it out as a misattribution and presumably paid less for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one I picked up recently. I&#039;d been after an eastern mint owl for some time. There&#039;s considerable debate whether there existed one, two, or three &quot;Sophytes&quot; and which one(s) minted what. So, regardless how many Sophytes there are, I&#039;m covering them all with this coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1414262[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Sophytes, &#039;Athenian Series&#039; AR Tetradrachm</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">Uncertain mint, circa 323-240 BCE</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">16.48g, 21mm, 1h.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Attic standard. Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette and grape bunch on the bowl / Owl standing to right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind, AΘE before; all within incuse square</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Cf. Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; cf. Roma XIV, 341 corr. (grape bunch on rev.)</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Roma</p><p></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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