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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2552457, member: 19463&quot;]Patience, Steve.</p><p>I paid more than that for my stater in 1991 (but you will pay more when the post office finishes with you).&nbsp;&nbsp; I favor coins like yours with good centering but can live with the rear of my bull being lost better than if it were the head. </p><p><br /></p><p>You are just rubbing it in the fact that my bull&#039;s underwear is off flan if he had any.&nbsp; Not nice!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]548582[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My other one was less but it is only a 1/6th stater which came from Harlan Berk in 1990.&nbsp; It is a little later as shown by the bull&#039;s head being turned a bit toward the viewer rather than straight ahead as on the earlier ones.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]548583[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Did you know that Thourioi was the new name given to the city rebuilt where Sybaris originally stood.&nbsp; Sybaris natives were driven out several times in the half century before Thorioi was founded by other settlers.&nbsp; The old city was also into bulls on their coins which gives me an excuse to show my stater from before 510BC when the destructive wars with Kroton began.&nbsp; If you are going to collect Thourioi, you need a Sybaris, too, right???</p><p>[ATTACH=full]548596[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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