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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24870972, member: 26430&quot;]Great find for a Pick-Bin! Interesting that those little bronzes in the name of Philetairos may have been issued posthumously for a long time. I&#039;m a huge fan of small Greek coins in general, including bronzes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a little 10mm, 1.01g bronze from Mysia, Pergamon (c. 310-284 BCE, the period right before Philetairos), with Athena on the reverse. (At least one or two other cities struck a very similar type.) I liked this one because it&#039;s unusual to see Herakles with even a hint of smile like this (Athena&#039;s smile is more typical):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1595925[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>That wasn&#039;t a &quot;pick-bin&quot; coin though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one of my favorites ever from a &quot;pick-bin.&quot; $20 at the Chicago coin fair (CICF), 2014 I think. But I ended up selling it (for more!).</p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius smiles admiringly (from the obverse) at Priapus&#039; absurdly oversized phallus, while he points at it proudly:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1595926[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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