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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3875566, member: 56859&quot;]The island of Arados is cute as a button and not much larger! </p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting provincial bought in my first months of collecting and I still love it:</p><p><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_4d8ffd4c7692454fbdaae532a808a53a.jpg_srb_p_850_434_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srb" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Arados. Trajan</b></p><p>CY 375 (CE 116/7)</p><p>Æ22, 9.65 g</p><p>Obv: draped bust of Astarte-Europa right; before, small laureate and draped bust of Trajan</p><p>Rev: bull charging left</p><p>Reference: SNG Copenhagen 81; BMC 374</p><p><br /></p><p>A mixed lot find:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2Fmedia%2Fae43f8_960a4ad15f2b419ba4c10f3b354a2a96%7Emv2.jpg%2Fv1%2Ffill%2Fw_1000%2Ch_513%2Cal_c%2Cq_85%2Fae43f8_960a4ad15f2b419ba4c10f3b354a2a96%7Emv2.jpg&amp;hash=78163bd4d3a27b207917b4d54b585b2f" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Arados</b></p><p>Aradian date 130 (130/129 BCE)</p><p>AE 16, 4.0 gm</p><p>Obv: jugate heads of Zeus and Astarte right</p><p>Rev: prow of ship left, with figurehead of Athena; above, Phoenician aleph and nun (right to left); below, date</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; Duyrat 2005 No.4263-4290; BMC Phoenicia No.295-296; HGC 10 No.90.</p><p><br /></p><p>An Alexander tet:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/atgtet-cc-jpg.511820/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>KINGS OF MACEDON, Alexander III</b></p><p>AR tetradrachm, 17.14 gm</p><p>late lifetime issue, struck in Aradus c. 324/3 BCE</p><p>Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress.</p><p>Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ; Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; I in left field; AP monogram below throne</p><p>Ref: Price 3325</p><p><i>ex Colosseo Collection</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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