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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 4757537, member: 91461&quot;]Thanks so much for sharing your excellent double Aphrodite! Really dig her portrait. </p><p>Though,&nbsp; in defense of the seller/sucker that mistook [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]&#039;s reverse (great type btw, Doug and [USER=99412]@PeteB[/USER]), if you&#039;d told me that was Apollo I would totally have fallen for it (silly man buns):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160765[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ionia, Smyrna</p><p><br /></p><p>Civic issue. 2nd-1st century BCE 75-50 BCE 15mm 3,67 gr,&nbsp; 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.</p><p>&quot;caestus&quot; is a early version of the boxing glove</p><p>Ex Savoca[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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