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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3550123, member: 91461&quot;]Way to be! Some really nice detail on your athletes. As I recall [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]&nbsp; had pointed out to me that some of these guys boxers and they&#039;re not always wrestlers!</p><p>I was pretty jazzed when I purchased mine not to long ago:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]943362[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Pamphylia. Aspendos</p><p>370-330 BCE</p><p>Stater AR</p><p>22mm., 10,17g.</p><p>Two wrestlers grappling; AΦ between / EΣTFEΔIIVΣ, slinger to right, triskeles in right field.</p><p>very fine</p><p>SNG France 83</p><p><br /></p><p>Since it&#039;s got a sports theme and there is a heavyweight title fight on tonight I&#039;ll add my coin with an ancient boxing glove:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]943363[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Ionia, Smyrna</p><p>Civic issue. 2nd-1st century BCE 75-50 BCE Metrodoros, son of Menekles, magistrate. laureate head of Apollo right within dotted border / [ΞΜ]ΥΡΝΑΙΩ[Ν] / [ΜΗΤ]ΡΟΔΩΡ[ΟΣ] , ethnic and magistrate&#039;s name vertically downwards to right and left of hand in caestus; palm-branch to right. Cf. BMC 56; Cf. Milne 393; Cf. SNG Cop 1172. VF, smooth tan-green patina. &quot;caestus&quot; is a early version of the boxing glove[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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