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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2150194, member: 56859&quot;]Oh my.</p><p><br /></p><p>Time for a &quot;post your ugliest coin&quot; thread?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Just teasing (but not kidding).&nbsp; This is one of the many perks of collecting ancients:&nbsp; being able to justify far less-than-perfect coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was unfamiliar with this city and the delightful anecdote.&nbsp; Now I want something from Hamaxitos.&nbsp; &nbsp; Slim pickins, based on the few examples in acsearch.</p><p><br /></p><p>A blurb from the description of a Hamaxitos tetradrachm sold by NAC in 2005, adding to your field mice anecdote:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In the Iliad, Homer has Apollo Smintheus bring the plague to the Greeks as a punishment for Agamemnos’s arrogance toward Chryse, the god’s high priest. Apollo’s temple was built at Chryse in the territory of Hamaxitos, one of the cities from which the original population of Alexandria came from. The statue of Apollo, sculpted by the great Parian, shows Apollo standing with a mouse at his feet.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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