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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2102689, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">When I first saw this sweet coin I thought &quot;wow, what a cool 3/4-facing coin&quot; ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; then I noticed that this sweet example was an over-strike on top of another coin that I love!! (that&#039;s when I knew that I was gonna be blowin&#039; my March budget) ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">hey, please don&#039;t judge me, my awesome coin-comrades ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">I hope that you can figure-out what&#039;s goin&#039; on and then once you do, I hope that you think that it&#039;s pretty fricken cool!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Cheers, man =&gt; yah, coins rock, eh?</span></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">BOEOTIA, Federal Coinage (Overstrike), Æ18</span></b></p><p>Circa 220s BC</p><p>Diameter: 17.5 mm</p><p>Weight: 5.11 grams</p><p>Obverse: Head of Demeter or Kore (Persephone) three-quarter face right, wearing corn-wreath</p><p>Reverse: Poseidon, naked, standing left, resting right foot on rock and leaning on trident; to right, ΒΟΙΩΤ[ΩΝ] downward</p><p>Reference: BCD Boiotia 108 (this coin); HGC 4, 1182. VF, dark brown patina. Overstruck on Æ of Antigonos Gonatas of the type SNG Cop. 1214-1221</p><p>Other: 12h … the overstrikes are reversed on this coin, which is quite rare</p><p><br /></p><p><i> Ex BCD Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 108</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]395774[/ATTACH]</i> <i>[ATTACH=full]395775[/ATTACH]</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Yah, even by itself, this coin is pretty cool, right? ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; I mean &quot;wow&quot; ... who doesn&#039;t love a coin with a 3/4 facing portrait of Demeter or Kore (Persephone), right? ... oh, and then toss-in a sweet pose with Poseidon (total money-shot, correct?)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Yah =&gt; then I realized that those two awesome things were struck onto another one of my favourite coin examples ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; yup, they used an AE Antigonos Gonatas as the starting-point!! (man, how could this coin lose?!!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]395776[/ATTACH]</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">NOTE =&gt; yah, its awesome .... on the OP-coin&#039;s obverse, you can see the horse&#039;s head at &quot;6 o&#039;clock&quot; and it&#039;s feet somewhere around 10 to 11 o&#039;clock (very cool)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... oh, and on the OP-coin&#039;s reverse, you can still make-out the underlying head of Hercules (his nose being at approximately 12 midnight - one o&#039;clock) ... how fricken cool, right?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; really fricken cool, my coin-friends!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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