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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 4559380, member: 91461&quot;]All obstacles out of your way, financial and physical, what&#039;s the coin that you want most right now?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />... or one of them.</p><p>Tell me about a coin type that you don&#039;t have, won&#039;t have anytime soon and frankly don&#039;t want others to know about, for fear it would just turn more people on to its amazing type!<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie86" alt=":snaphappy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I&#039;ve plenty. But the one that keeps showing up on my radar...</p><p><br /></p><p>Philip V&#039;s, who would name his son after the God, Perseus</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128653[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Yeah, THAT Perseus)</p><p><br /></p><p>, the last legitimate king of macedon *unless you count his son, and wildly popular and charismatic Philip V.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128657[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The same Philip V whom brought Macedon back from the brink with a series of stirring land and sea victories<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":jimlad:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> solidifying Macedon as the eminent dominate force in Greece... right as Rome was making its presence known on the world stage. Bad timing anyone?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128658[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1129001[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Now, that&#039;s a hard outing for anybody!)</p><p><br /></p><p>The same Rome that had just more then decimated Carthage, spawning one of the greatest young generals since ATG, in Scipio Africanus, along the way. And then for good measure salted the earth afterward! Which probably didn&#039;t actually happen (though, as one of my favorite historians,&nbsp; Harl, says, &quot;If it didn&#039;t actually happen, the story is so good that it should have.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128662[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Tell me that beers with this guy wouldn&#039;t be outa sight?!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and did I mention it is a Macedonian shield coin???<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Calm down<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie92" alt=":stop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I know<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie59" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I may have to wait until my boys are out of college, but someday one will be mine.</p><p>Sadly, as I&#039;ve made painfully clear, none of these are my images. Pics borrowed from acsearch:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128642[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1128643[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1128644[/ATTACH]</p><p>KINGS of MACEDON. Philip V. 221-179 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.46 gm). Helmeted head of the hero Perseus left, harpa over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield; shield decorated with seven eight-pointed stars within double crescents / Club; monogram above, two monograms below; all within oak-wreath, caduceus to left.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]wVHAQX5sSaU[/MEDIA]</p><p><br /></p><p>So please, shares that dream that lingers in your thoughts after the coin is gone... or share that coin that you didn&#039;t think you&#039;d get but eventually did.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Just showed up in the mail today!!!)<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1128646[/ATTACH]</p><p>Macedonia under Roman rule</p><p>Amphipolis</p><p>AR tetradrachm- 16,21 gram,31 mm, struck after 168AD at Amphipolis</p><p>obv: diademed head of Artemis Tauropolos facing right with quiver over shoulder in the center of a Macedonian shield, shield decorated with seven eight-pointed stars within double crescents</p><p>rev: Club of Herakles within oak wreath, monograms and legend around, thunderbolt at left</p><p>AMNG III, 159</p><p>SNG Cop 1314</p><p>BMC 2</p><p>Ex: NB-numismatics[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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