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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ancient coin hunter, post: 7769086, member: 87200&quot;]Recently I bid on this type, did not win...though it would be fun to have a coin with my astrological sign</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a superior example....</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1332194[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>AE Drachm, 27.76g.&nbsp; 34mm. Dated year 8= 144/145 A.D. <i> Zodiac series, Mars in Aries.</i>&nbsp; Laureate head of Antoninus Pius to right.&nbsp; Rev. Ram leaping to right with head reverted; helmeted and cuirassed bust of Ares(Mars) and star above.&nbsp; Dattari 2958(this coin). Geissen 1898. Fine brown patina.&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>Rare and among the finest known examples.&nbsp; This coin was photographed in the 1901 edition of the Dattari collection to illustrate the Zodiac type; very few coins were illustrated from the massive collection in the original edition to illustrate the types.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Provenance/Pedigree:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Ex: Dattari collection, 2958 and plate XXVI in the 1901 edition.</p><p>Ex: Münz Zentrum, Köln collection and published, Ludwig Lehr, &quot;Beschreibung und Bedeutung der zwölf Tierkreiszeichen auf den Grossbronzen von Alexandria unter der Regierung des Antoninus Pius&quot; in&nbsp; <i>Helvetische Münzenzeitung</i>, Thun 1971, page 7(reverse illustrated).</p><p><br /></p><p><b>about Extremely Fine</b> $28,000.00[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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