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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2418439, member: 56859&quot;]Awesome score, coinbro!!&nbsp; Love love love your new ant tessera, although I&#039;m not particularly happy with the Formicidae family right now.&nbsp; The whole story would be TMI so let&#039;s just say unseen squished tiny gecko under commode seat, unseen swarm of tiny ants feasting on dead gecko, me sitting...&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie4" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have no ant coins but can contribute two tessera, one lead and one bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hadrian&#039;s boy toy, Antinous:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/antinouspb-rt-jpg.461580/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EGYPT, Antinoöpolis.&nbsp; Antinous</b></p><p>2nd-3rd centuries CE</p><p>PB tessera, 25 mm, 7.63 gm, 11h</p><p>Obv: draped bust of Antinous right, wearing hem-hem crown; crescent before, AN behind</p><p>Rev: Serapis standing right, head left, raising hand and holding scepter; to left, ЄYC/YBA/[...]</p><p>Ref: <a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=292087" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=292087" rel="nofollow">Peus 386 (26 April 2006), lot 759 (same dies)</a>; Milne –; Dattari (Savio) –; Köln –</p><p><br /></p><p>And this intriguing <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-magical-tessera.277808/#post-2404594" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/a-magical-tessera.277808/#post-2404594">magical or medicinal bronze tessera from Ephesus</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/ephesus-aetessera-gb-rt-ed-jpg.495994/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>IONIA, Ephesus. Anoynmous</b></p><p>c. 1st century CE</p><p>Æ tessera, 19mm, 5.14 g</p><p>Obv: CKωΠI, stage kneeling left, head right; E to left, Φ to right</p><p>Rev: KHPIΛICωΔEΠPOCΠAΛVPIN surrounding a bee</p><p>Ref: SNG Copenhagen 355; BMC 186; SNG von Aulock 1875[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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