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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3123948, member: 56859&quot;]What a great coin, [USER=81896]@Deacon Ray[/USER] !&nbsp; Not an easy coin to come by either <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER], killer Amyntas III.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER], what a fantastically detailed Ptolemy I portrait tet!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a well-worn eagle from the 87th Olympiad, 432 BCE.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_0702cab9a1514373b899ff1679ca33f9.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_428,al_c,q_85/ae43f8_0702cab9a1514373b899ff1679ca33f9.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>ELIS, Olympia. 87th Olympiad, 432 BCE</b></p><p>AR hemidrachm, 16 mm, 2.7 gm</p><p>Obv: eagle, with wings displayed above, flying left, holding hare by its back and tearing at it with his beak</p><p>Rev: thunderbolt, with wings above and volutes below, within circular incuse; to right, A.</p><p>Ref: BCD Olympia -; BCD Peloponnesos -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Traité -; SNG Delepierre -; Pozzi -; Weber -; McClean -. The obverse type, combined with the form of the thunderbolt, with its broad, splayed wings, and the A on the reverse, is most similar to the stater of BCD 50.</p><p><i>ex Frank James Collection </i></p><p><i>ex Classical Numismatic Group Mail Bid Sale 81, 20 May 2009, lot 2216</i></p><p><i>ex BCD Collection (not in LHS or Leu sales) </i></p><p><i>ex Spink 90, 16 March 1992, lot 761 (part of)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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