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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2090808, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Yah, I have been eyeing-up this baby for the past little while, trying to haggle with the seller and this morning we finally agreed upon a sweet enough price ... but honestly, once I saw this bad-boy I knew that it was eventually comin&#039; home to PaPa!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">As you may have gathered, I seem to have a side-collection going-on regarding these sweet, sweet Alexandrian A-Pius AE Drachms!! (I love them ... with, or without animals!!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... anyway ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">I hope that you welcome my latest example into our friendly CT Family ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; yummy, yummy, eh?</span></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">ANTONINUS PIUS Æ DRACHM, ALEXANDRIA</span></b></p><p>151-152 AD</p><p>Diameter: 34 mm</p><p>Weight: 27.15 grams</p><p>Obverse: AYT K T AIL ADP ANTWNEI NOC CEB EYC. Portrait head with laurel wreath to the right. Perlkreis</p><p>Reverse: Tyche with Kalathos on Lectisternium laden with garland resting, holding a rudder in her right hand</p><p>Reference: BMC 1077 var.; vgl. Dattari 2892</p><p>Other: Beautifully colourful tones (even better in hand)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]391474[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]391475[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Oh, and not only is this bad-boy &quot;colourful&quot; ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; it is fricken massive!! (34 mm and weighin&#039;-in at 27.15 grams!!)</span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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