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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3243210, member: 96864&quot;]Ouch, but at least you were actually engaged in something important and responsible. When that happens to me it&#039;s usually because I drank a few too many brews and forgot about bidding entirely. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":dead:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>While we&#039;re at it here&#039;s a Syracuse litra (the Campani Litrae were overstruck on them) with the most awesome hooked sprues I&#039;ve ever seen (not that I&#039;ve seen many). I had already blown too much this week on coins and artifacts and couldn&#039;t bid as high as I wanted yesterday, so someone got a remarkable piece I probably won&#039;t forget anytime soon:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]849362[/ATTACH] </p><p>You could hang that beast on a thread from either eye-catching oppositely-hooked sprue, how awesome is that?</p><p><br /></p><p>The Wednesday purchase which blew part of the budget that otherwise would have fattened the bid yesterday is something that means much more personally: A supremely rare Hellenistic lead sling bullet embossed with Zeus&#039; Cyclopean Thunderbolt, to &quot;strike&quot; the enemy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Generally speaking thunderbolt bullets are common in the realm of sling projectiles, however instead of being a typical 30-50 grams, it is <b>173 skullcrushing grams! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </b>That&#039;s a full 6 ounces of lead, an ounce heavier than my next-largest plain Iberian bullet and 7 times heavier than my smallest inscribed bullets. The next largest embossed/decorated bullet I&#039;ve seen was 123 grams (mushed and indecipherable), so at 173g it is a gold-medal outlier of remarkable proportions, and believe I stole it for the 252 shipped they were asking. It was a new arrival on VCoins I got an email alert for, and doubt it would&#039;ve lasted the day had I passed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll see plenty more Litrae in my life but may never see another one of these &quot;White Whale&quot; 6 ounce monster bullets again. We can&#039;t win &#039;em all, so just try to win the ones that really matter. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]849408[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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