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<p>[QUOTE="dadams, post: 4592885, member: 82194"]<font face="Times New Roman">I can't comment upon authenticity, but you've done your due diligence and bought from a reputable dealer so you should be confident in your purchase. I too looked for one of these for quite a while before finding one I liked from a dealer I liked at price I liked:</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1137211[/ATTACH]</p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Apollonia Pontika, Thrace. 470- 450 BC. AR diobol (14mm, 2.8gm)</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">OBV: facing head of Gorgon </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">REV: Anchor; crayfish in r. field; A in l. field. </font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">SNG Copenhagen 459</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Ex: Victors Imperial Coins</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">(I made a note to myself on this coin but haven't revisited the question nor confirmed: I think this is a Drachm [AR Reduced Drachm] - see <a href="http://snible.org/coins/ap.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snible.org/coins/ap.html" rel="nofollow">Snible</a>, not a diobol)</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dadams, post: 4592885, member: 82194"][FONT=Times New Roman]I can't comment upon authenticity, but you've done your due diligence and bought from a reputable dealer so you should be confident in your purchase. I too looked for one of these for quite a while before finding one I liked from a dealer I liked at price I liked:[/FONT] [ATTACH=full]1137211[/ATTACH] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Apollonia Pontika, Thrace. 470- 450 BC. AR diobol (14mm, 2.8gm) OBV: facing head of Gorgon REV: Anchor; crayfish in r. field; A in l. field. SNG Copenhagen 459 Ex: Victors Imperial Coins (I made a note to myself on this coin but haven't revisited the question nor confirmed: I think this is a Drachm [AR Reduced Drachm] - see [URL='http://snible.org/coins/ap.html']Snible[/URL], not a diobol)[/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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