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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3305588, member: 19463&quot;]The coins come from the time after Sparta was defeated in the Laconian war of 195 AD and was forced to join the Achaean League.&nbsp; You will find coins of the same major type from other cities but the Spartan ones have the twin Dioscuri hats and and a Lambda somewhere.&nbsp; Mine is slightly different.&nbsp; The iron spits were from the Classical period when Sparta ruled the Greek world. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]876084[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Note that Philip II and Alexander the Great did not try to conquer Sparta. It took a coalition of powers including Rome to subdue them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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