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Message:: [QUOTE="TIF, post: 2621098, member: 56859"]I don't have any.  Do you? Cicadas were hard to come by until recently, when bunches of <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&CONTAINER_NAME=&ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=&ITEM_DESC=phaselis+stater%2C+cicada&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&VIEW_TYPE=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&CONTAINER_NAME=&ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=&ITEM_DESC=phaselis+stater%2C+cicada&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&VIEW_TYPE=0" rel="nofollow">Phaselis staters hit the market</a>.  There must've been a hoard.  Many of them have outstanding cicada control marks-- very identifiable as cicadas, unlike the control marks on other coins.  I've love to have one of those. There are some of Athens which feature a cicada as the main device.  Very cool!  CNG's archives have a couple of them.  There are some Umbrian aes grave sextans with cicadas, although they don't look much like cicadas.[/QUOTE]