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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4262541, member: 99456&quot;]An enjoyable coin and and write-up - the encrustation does add interest as does your description.</p><p><br /></p><p>You bring to mind Homer&#039;s epic poem (true author debated), <a href="https://archive.org/details/homersbatrachomy00chap/page/n33/mode/2up/search/pallas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/homersbatrachomy00chap/page/n33/mode/2up/search/pallas" rel="nofollow">Batrachomymachia</a>, and the god&#039;s intervention to save the frogs from vengeful mice and prevent the frogs demise.&nbsp; Although Athena is no frog-lover in the poem, &quot;for their infirm minds no confines keep&quot;, she goes on longer about her lack of love for mice:</p><blockquote><p>“Pallas replied: O Father, never I</p><p>Will aid the Mice in any misery.</p><p>So many mischiefs by them I have found…”</p><p>-<a href="https://archive.org/details/homersbatrachomy00chap/page/10/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/homersbatrachomy00chap/page/10/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">Batrachomymachia</a></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my Athena beset by frog:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1086074[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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