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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3555710, member: 91461&quot;]Great thread idea [USER=76194]@Sallent[/USER]! And really cool Galba rarity<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> (yeah, that&#039;s a Cuban cigar he&#039;s a smokin).</p><p>One that very well may be my &quot;favorite&quot; at this point in collecting and getting to hold onto for awhile is this scrubby old lil beauty.</p><p>Minted just a generation or so before Kimon and his boys started signing their coins. It is, in my very humble opinion, one of the high water marks for beauty on ancient coins... Just passed around in the actual commerce and trade of the time!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]945131[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>SICILY. Syracuse. Deinomenid Tyranny</p><p><br /></p><p>485-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm - 17.45 g). Struck circa 480-475 BC. Charioteer driving walking quadriga right, holding kentron and reins; Nike flying above crowning horses / Diademed head of Arethusa right, surrounded by four dolphins swimming clockwise. Boehringer 134 (V60/R93); SNG ANS 38 (same dies); Randazzo-. revsl off-ctr, sl surface imperfections,most notably a horizontal scratchlike flaw in obvright field.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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