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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roerbakmix, post: 4850849, member: 100731&quot;]My only coin with Dionysos - it does include grapes though and an interesting countermark of a veiled female head (Dionysos had the booze and the girls). </p><p><br /></p><p><b>GREECE, Anonymous.</b></p><p><b>AE 20, minted: Thrace, Mesambria; 100-25 BC </b></p><p><img src="https://www.dropbox.com/s/46faz99maypqs5k/Anonymous%20-%2020%20%28100-25%20BC%29.jpg?raw=1" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Obverse: Wreathed head of Dionysos to the right. Countermark of unidentified veiled female figure to the right.</p><p>Reverse: MEΣAM-BΡIAN[ΩN], grape bunch; MΔ above</p><p>Weight: 7.24g; Ø:2mm. Catalogue: SNG Stancomb 244; SNG BM Black Sea -; SNG Copenhagen -.. Provenance: Ex private collection; acq.: 05-2019</p><p>Details:</p><p>Nice brown patina. No comparable countermarks on Thracian coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>During my time as a student, a whisky was my favorite drink. In the Netherlands, the tax on alcoholic beverages is quite high, so during holidays in France or Germany, I always bought a couple of nice whisky&#039;s, usually for about half the price. Anyway, then I met my wife, came the kids, came the full-time job, and happy student-days were over. However, apart from sleepless nights, the paychecks for a medical doctor aren&#039;t that bad, so we bought:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171534[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1171535[/ATTACH]</p><p>that&#039;s right: the ECM Mechanika III. Makes delicious espresso&#039;s which helps against the sleepless nights (and the (very) occasional hangover for those rare moments when I still enjoy my whisky collection in the evening).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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