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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1567058, member: 9204&quot;]Just picked this up from Gitbud &amp; Naumann on Vcoins - a Roman era token from Ephesos in a contemporary silver mount. Considering the wear and the way it&#039;s set, it was probably worn with the stag facing out.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/normal_ephesos_tessera_in_silver_mount.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>IONIA, Ephesos.</b> 1st-2nd century AD.</p> <p style="text-align: center">Æ Tessera in contemporary AR mount (23mm, 6.25, 1 h)</p> <p style="text-align: center">KHPIΛIC ωΔE ΠPOC ΠAΛVPIN</p> <p style="text-align: center">Bee&nbsp; &nbsp; </p> <p style="text-align: center">CKωΠI, recumbent stag; E to left, Φ to right</p> <p style="text-align: center">BMC 186; SNG Copenhagen 355; cf. CNG E-126, lot 60 (also in bezel)</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Head interprets the legend ΠAΛYPIN as related to υρoν, beehive, and ύppις, basket and conflated with πaλιν, bring back. From this, he suggests that the token would have been placed in a jar and shaken to produce a ringing sound, while the magical words were spoken. Thus, the piece would be a magical token, related to the folk tradition of ringing the bees into their hives. Such an explanation is perhaps overly fanciful.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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