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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 7324639, member: 82322"]I have had this for 15 years and only learned this coin comes from an island last week!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1279904[/ATTACH] </p><p>Ionia, Klazomenai / Circa 480-400 BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.58 g).</p><p>Classical Numismatic Group, e-Auction 148, September 2006, lot 162 (David Herman collection)</p><p><br /></p><p>Klazomenai city was originally located on the mainland, but probably during the early fifth-century BC Ionian Revolt from the Persians, moved to the Karantina Island just off the coast. This coin likely dates from that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1279905[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Alexander the Great eventually connected Karantina island to the mainland with a causeway, the remains of which are said to still be visible. Here is the modern road, which I found on the Internet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Karantina island is about half the size of New York’s Roosevelt island, the little island in Manhattan's East River.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a quarentine island in the 1800s (just like Roosevelt island!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 7324639, member: 82322"]I have had this for 15 years and only learned this coin comes from an island last week! [ATTACH=full]1279904[/ATTACH] Ionia, Klazomenai / Circa 480-400 BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.58 g). Classical Numismatic Group, e-Auction 148, September 2006, lot 162 (David Herman collection) Klazomenai city was originally located on the mainland, but probably during the early fifth-century BC Ionian Revolt from the Persians, moved to the Karantina Island just off the coast. This coin likely dates from that time. [ATTACH=full]1279905[/ATTACH] Alexander the Great eventually connected Karantina island to the mainland with a causeway, the remains of which are said to still be visible. Here is the modern road, which I found on the Internet. Karantina island is about half the size of New York’s Roosevelt island, the little island in Manhattan's East River. It was a quarentine island in the 1800s (just like Roosevelt island!)[/QUOTE]
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