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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2389002, member: 42773&quot;]Here&#039;s a characteristic bronze of Tarsos - I know some of you have this coin because of the unique Pyre of Sandan. If you don&#039;t know about Sandan, the FORVM blurb is nice and succinct, so I&#039;ll quote it...</p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">Sandan was a Hittite-Babylonian sun, storm, or warrior god, also perhaps associated with agriculture. The Greeks equated Sandan with Herakles (Hercules). At Tarsus an annual festival honored Sandan-Herakles, which climaxed when, as depicted on this coin, an image of the god was burned on a funeral pyre.</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, this coin is scratched, or maybe it&#039;s flan adjustment - I always have a hard time telling. But the detail on the reverse is superb, some of the best I&#039;ve seen, and it&#039;s the first example of this type that I&#039;ve seen countermarked, in this case Helios, and what a great countermark!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]490587[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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