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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3378553, member: 57495&quot;]Great coin and writeup! The face of that lion looks almost smiling, though I don&#039;t know what a skinned lion has to be happy about. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Colin Kraay, writing about the lion scalp type used at Samos: &quot;<i>On the reverse was the scalp of a lion which is to be understood as a shorthand reference to Hera, the principal goddess of Samos, for a lion&#039;s skin lay at the foot of her cult statue.</i>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The correct demonym is &quot;Samian&quot; and not &quot;Samoan&quot;.&nbsp; Now, you&#039;ve made the <i>real</i> Samoans angry...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]896794[/ATTACH]</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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