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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2748227, member: 56859&quot;]walk into a bar...</p><p><br /></p><p>Okay they didn&#039;t but feel free to devise a punch line <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>This fun little coin feeds my hippocamp addiction <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The type was on &quot;the list&quot; for a while and the time was right.&nbsp; Another ex- [USER=80317]@ab initio[/USER] too <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; (Thanks for preserving the auction ephemera!)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]628806[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>THESSALY, Larissa Kremaste</b></p><p>4th century BCE</p><p>Æ Trichalkon; 16mm, 6.0 g</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; head of Achilles left</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; ΛΑΡΙ; Thetis, holding shield of Achilles with AX (=Achilles) monogram, seated left on hippocamp</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; BCD Thessaly I –; BCD Thessaly II 403.1; HGC 4, 13</p><p><i>Ex BCD Collection</i></p><p><i>Ex Hopper Collection (Sotheby’s, 9 March 1989), lot 519 (part)</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]628807[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]628808[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>No big pseudo-scholarly or funny writeup this time although the coin certainly deserves a better effort than this.&nbsp; I&#039;m too tired to do it (work work work <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Thetis:</b>&nbsp;&nbsp; sea goddess, shape-changer, leader of the fifty Nereides, and mother of Achilles.&nbsp; You can read more about her <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/NereisThetis.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theoi.com/Pontios/NereisThetis.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.theoi.com/image/P12.4AThetis.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3">J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu.&nbsp; Apulian red figure, c. 425 - 401 BCE.&nbsp; Thetis on hippocamp.&nbsp; Image from <a href="http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/P12.4A.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/P12.4A.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.theoi.com/Gallery/P12.4A.html</a> </font></p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to pile on with your hippocamps, Achilles, or whatever else fits <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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