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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1812431, member: 56859&quot;]Well OK, I&#039;ll play <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; I was going to wait until this arrives but I can post it again later with better pics.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]296202[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Steve, after our recent conversation I decided to find one of these for myself.&nbsp; A reasonable example came up for auction last weekend and the bidding was not insane.&nbsp; Yay!</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted one for several reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>a.&nbsp; It&#039;s a monkey.&nbsp; The only monkey on ancient Greek coins.</p><p>b.&nbsp; It is now my smallest coin.&nbsp; At 0.26 gm it is 365 times lighter than my Carthage 15 shekel and at 5 mm is 9.6 times smaller in diameter than my largest Ptolemaic bronze.</p><p>c.&nbsp; It&#039;s a freakin&#039; monkey.&nbsp;&nbsp; No other reasons are required.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way it could be better would be if it were a <i>winged</i> monkey, but those only exist in The Wizard of Oz. <span style="color: #ff0000"><b>*</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #ff0000">Note to Doug Smith:&nbsp; I am 99% sure that in this sentence, using the past subjunctive &quot;if it were&quot; is correct.</span></font></p><p><font size="3"><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #000000">Edit:&nbsp; Whoops, this one isn&#039;t incuse.&nbsp; But it is ancient and cool so I knew you wouldn&#039;t mind.</span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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