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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 8257771, member: 86498&quot;]Tetradrachm of Kyme 165-160 BC Metrophanes Magistrate Obv, Head of the Amazon Kyme right. Rv. Horse walking right, left leg raised over one handled cup All with laurel wreath. Oakley 3 16.74 grms&nbsp; 30 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1456092[/ATTACH]This coin is a part of a series of coins minted from a number of cities in western Asia Minor which though they each have their unique civic types are all minted on the Attic standard and have the same spread flans and usually with laurel wreaths on the reverse. They appear to have started roughly at the same time that the Kingdom of Pergamon adopted the cistophoric standard. So it would appear that this kingdom more or less suspended minting coins featuring types associated with the Attalid dynasty opting for coinages that appeared essentially civic in nature. On a personal note. Today has been a little unusual. This is the second coin I have posted today that I bought as an unsold lot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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