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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4257759, member: 57495&quot;]How could you go wrong with the handsome Greek bronze for $13?&nbsp; Nice score, RC!&nbsp; I especially like the clear maeander pattern.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a provincial struck about two centuries after yours.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1085540[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>HADRIAN</b></p><p>AE22. 4.10g, 22mm. PHRYGIA, Apameia, AD 117-138. SNG von Aulock 3492; SNG Copenhagen 211; BMC 155. O: AΔPIANOC KAI CЄB, laureate head right, with slight drapery. R: AΠAMЄΩN MAPCVAC KIBΩTOI, Marsyas reclining left within cavern, holding cornucopia and double flute; five chests above.</p><p>Notes: <i>Apameia was also known by the sobriquet Kibotos, or The Chest, alluding to either its great wealth as a trade emporium, or perhaps more likely, for the ubiquitous wooden packing crates that were used by the city&#039;s trade middlemen to re-pack goods bound from Egypt and Asia to Greece and later, the Roman Empire.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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