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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3678643, member: 91461&quot;]Happy saweet sixteen(ish), Gandy!!!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Hopefully you&#039;re able to treat yourself well (though I see [USER=75563]@ancientcoinguru[/USER]&nbsp; has already spoiled you Johnny rotten).</p><p>That coin is total BS... Bull saweet! Another to the must have list.</p><p>But I&#039;ve got a few birthday bulls laying around somewhere:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]987714[/ATTACH]</p><p>Seleukos I Nikator</p><p>312-281 BCE. Æ (15mm, 2.48 g,). Uncertain mint. Winged head of Medusa right / Bull butting right; controls not visible.</p><p>Former SAVOCA coin</p><p>[ATTACH=full]987715[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]987716[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]987718[/ATTACH]</p><p>L. Thorius Balbus, Denarius, Rome, 105 BCE AR (3,74 gr 20 MM6 H) Head of Juno Sospitar., wearing goat-skin behind, downwards, I S M R, Rv. Bull charging r. above, control letter, O below. L THORIVS in ex. BALBVS. Crawford 316/1 Thoria1 Sydenham 598.</p><p>Cabinet tone</p><p>[ATTACH=full]987719[/ATTACH]</p><p>C. Marius C.f. Capito</p><p>81 BC. Rome Serratus AR</p><p>17mm., 3,63g.</p><p>Draped bust of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain ears, anchor below chin / Ploughman with yoke of oxen left, inverted T above.</p><p>nearly very fine</p><p>Crawford 378/1c; Sydenham 744b; Maria 9. Former Savoca</p><p>[ATTACH=full]987720[/ATTACH]</p><p>C. Marius C.f. Capito</p><p>81 BCE. AR plated&nbsp; SerrateDenarius (17mm, 3.94 g, 6h). Rome mint. Wreathed and draped bust of Ceres right; LXXVIII at end of legend, [cornucopia] below chin / Husbandman with yoke of oxen ploughing left; LXXVIII above. Crawford 378/1c; Sydenham 744b; Maria 9.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]987721[/ATTACH]</p><p>Julian II AD 360-363. Nicomedia</p><p>Double Maiorina Æ</p><p>27mm., 8,68g.</p><p>D N FL CL IVLIANVS P F AVG, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right / SECVRITAS REI PVB, bull standing right, two stars above, (palm)-NIKΓ-(palm) in exergue.</p><p>very fine</p><p>RIC 121; LRBC 2319.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: often I&#039;m saddened when my obscene word play goes unoticed. It took me until the second reading of your threads title to see BULL and THIS. Very good wordplay right there folks. Rearrange the letters in THIS. See what my man did?? Hehe[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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