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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1986548, member: 19463"][ATTACH=full]355029[/ATTACH] </p><p>Mine is not EF and lacks the lambda altogether as well as coming from a 1988 private D.C. collection that no one but me cares about but I do consider it interesting to compare the die work on matching coins. All mine really adds is the club which makes mine clearly Herakles while the OP coin almost would sucker me into saying Zeus. Neither of us have a really good recurved bow.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I bought mine, I thought I could not afford to collect Greek coins. I still feel that way to an extent but we have to remember that these little bronzes probably did more daily service than any of the tetradrachms. As Greek cities go, Selge has quite a variety of coins in the "not horridly priced but interesting" range. My collection of the city totals four coins with the most recent addition coming in 1989 and all from sources associated with D.C. where I lived at the time. I guess it was a hotbed of Selge coins at the time. </p><p>The others:</p><p>AR trihemiobol</p><p>[ATTACH=full]355035[/ATTACH] </p><p>AR stater</p><p>[ATTACH=full]355036[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>AE13</p><p>[ATTACH=full]355037[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 1986548, member: 19463"][ATTACH=full]355029[/ATTACH] Mine is not EF and lacks the lambda altogether as well as coming from a 1988 private D.C. collection that no one but me cares about but I do consider it interesting to compare the die work on matching coins. All mine really adds is the club which makes mine clearly Herakles while the OP coin almost would sucker me into saying Zeus. Neither of us have a really good recurved bow. When I bought mine, I thought I could not afford to collect Greek coins. I still feel that way to an extent but we have to remember that these little bronzes probably did more daily service than any of the tetradrachms. As Greek cities go, Selge has quite a variety of coins in the "not horridly priced but interesting" range. My collection of the city totals four coins with the most recent addition coming in 1989 and all from sources associated with D.C. where I lived at the time. I guess it was a hotbed of Selge coins at the time. The others: AR trihemiobol [ATTACH=full]355035[/ATTACH] AR stater [ATTACH=full]355036[/ATTACH] AE13 [ATTACH=full]355037[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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