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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3180498, member: 82322&quot;]Fat Alexander!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]819534[/ATTACH] </p><p>Arados mint. Civic issue, dated CY 59 (201/0 BC).&nbsp; 17.04 gm</p><p>Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion&#039;s skin headdress</p><p>Rev: Zeus seated left, holding eagle and sceptre; palm tree in left field, AP monogram below throne, QN (date) in exergue.</p><p>Price 3389. Same obverse die as British Museum 1857, 1218.8</p><p>Ex Classical Numismatic Group 57, March 2001, lot 226, and ex Garth R. Drewry Collection</p><p><br /></p><p>I am convinced the die cutter would not have depicted &quot;Alexander&quot; so fat unless he was coping a local magistrate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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