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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24678365, member: 26430&quot;]I love holed coins! It&#039;s genuinely one of the things I find especially interesting about the following two. Alexandrian coins often have holes at 3 o&#039;clock and 9 o&#039;clock, supposedly for use as funerary amulets (the orientation makes clear that these almost always were placed reverse side facing out):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1574171[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On this one I guess they didn&#039;t feel they could fit a second hole (a much smaller coin, an AE Obol, not an AE Drachm):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1574172[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Both illustrated in Kellner&#039;s Alexandria:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1574173[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1574174[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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