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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4994224, member: 57495&quot;]Fourrée, holed, AND Tarentum... I&#039;m jealous!&nbsp; I picked up a fourrée hybrid dolphin-rider a few months ago, but with no hole, unfortunately.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1199399[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CALABRIA, Tarentum</b></p><p>Fourrée Stater. 5.43g, 21mm. Copying CALABRIA, Tarentum, circa 281-272. Vlasto –, cf. 769 (for obverse). O: Nude youth on horseback left, crowning horse; |-I above, ΙΩΠΥΙ and a squatting satyr below. R: Dolphin rider left, holding Nike and sceptre; below, prow left.</p><p><br /></p><p>My most recent is a Thasos drachm, which does have a hole... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1199406[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>THRACE, Thasos</b></p><p>Fourrée Drachm (Holed). 2.74g, 15.8mm. ISLANDS OFF THRACE, Thasos, circa 412-404 BC for prototype. Cf. HGC 6, 336. O: Ithyphallic satyr advancing partly to right, carrying protesting nymph; both in Classical style. R: Quadripartite incuse square.</p><p><br /></p><p>And a few others...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1199405[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>MACEDON, Neapolis</b></p><p>Fourrée Stater. Cut in antiquity. 6.92g, 18.7mm. Copying MACEDON, Neapolis, circa 5th century BC. cf. SNG ANS 406-19. O: Facing gorgoneion with protruding tongue. R: Quadripartite incuse square. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1199404[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>MACEDONIAN KINGDOM, Alexander III the Great</b></p><p>Fourrée Tetradrachm. 16.61g, 31.7mm. Irregular mint, imitating Aspendos, circa 208/7-195/4. Cf. Price 2876ff (for prototype); Leu Web Auction 3, Lot 197 (same dies). O: Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress. R: AΛEΞAN∆POY, Zeus seated left on low throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and eagle standing right with closed wings in his right; to left, AΣ. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1199411[/ATTACH]<b>ZEUGITANA, Carthage</b></p><p>Fourrée EL Tridrachm. 6.68g, 22.2mm. Copying Carthage mint, circa 264-241 BC. Cf. SNG Copenhagen 183 for prototype. O: Wreathed head of Tanit left in a dotted border. R: Horse standing right, sun-disk with uraei above; dotted border.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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