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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3304922, member: 57495&quot;]Nice Spartan!&nbsp; I’d love to have one of these silver issues, but for now, I’m glad I have my lone bronze to post whenever the opportunity arises. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2015-10-21_18-1-42-png.447317/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta)</b></p><p>AE. 5.7g, 20.3mm. C. Julius Eurycles as <i>hegemon</i>, circa 31-7 BC. RPC 1103; BMC 63. O: Head of Zeus right. R: Club; Λ-A/EΠI EY/PY-K(ΛE)/O-Σ in four lines across field; all within wreath.</p><p><br /></p><p>C. Julius Eurycles was a Spartan commander whose father had been put to death by Mark Antony. When Eurycles fought at the Battle of Actium in support of Octavian, it’s said he pursued a fleeing Antony more fervently than any others and that his ship drew close enough to yell taunts at him. </p><p><br /></p><p>Eurycles was subsequently made ruler of Sparta, which remained a free and autonomous city, with its territories enlarged at the expense of cities that had not supported Octavian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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