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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2389978, member: 56859&quot;]Nice Olympic stater!&nbsp; Someday I hope to get that denomination for my Elis &quot;set&quot;.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I like showing these to non-coin friends because they have at least heard of the place <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Steve is surely warming up his clicking finger.&nbsp; He loooooves his crystalized fractionals!</p><p><br /></p><p>I too love coins of Elis.&nbsp; As for crystalization, it can be lovely in its own right.&nbsp; All of my Elis coins have at least some reticulation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Olympic parade:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_0702cab9a1514373b899ff1679ca33f9.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_428,al_c,q_90/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:&nbsp; eagle, with wings displayed above, flying left, holding hare by its back and tearing at it with his beak</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; thunderbolt, with wings above and volutes below, within circular incuse; to right, A.</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; 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><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_6c9a61bca59e4495b533b7fcd8b0fad7.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_494,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_6c9a61bca59e4495b533b7fcd8b0fad7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>ELIS, Olympia. 95th Olympiad, 400 BCE</b></p><p>AR hemidrachm, 16 mm, 2.6 gm</p><p>Obv: head and neck of eagle right; F below</p><p>Rev: thunderbolt, volutes above, wings below, F-A across fields</p><p>Ref: BCD Olympia 85/84 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 372</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_9d61a2b3f4a7432e8839a335c8accef5.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_467,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_9d61a2b3f4a7432e8839a335c8accef5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>ELIS, Olympia. 103rd Olympiad, 368 BCE</b></p><p>AR drachm, 21 mm, 5.7 gm</p><p>Obv: head of Hera right, wearing pendant earring and stephane ornamented with palmettes with H-R-A inscribed between them, [F-A across fields]</p><p>Rev: eagle with spread wings standing left, head reverted</p><p>Ref: Pozzi 1846 (same dies); Jameson 1240 = Seltman pl. xii, 8 (same dies); BMC 91 (same dies); BCD Olympia 113 (same dies)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_f2a55c55ecbf40f99ff1e01a7ccf7669.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_491,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_f2a55c55ecbf40f99ff1e01a7ccf7669.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>ELIS, Olympia. 107th-108th Olympiad, 352-348 BCE</b></p><p>AR hemidrachm, 14 mm, 2.4 gm</p><p>Obv: laureate head of Zeus right</p><p>Rev: eagle standing right, olive leaf before, F-A across fields</p><p>Ref: BCD Olympia 143-44; SNG Copenhagen 420; BMC 84; Dewing 1896; McClean 6637; SNG Delepierre 2158</p><p><br /></p><p>And a couple of very reticulated coins:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_e6d427d86f964184b5ddea492ddc90d2.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_496,al_c,q_90/ae43f8_e6d427d86f964184b5ddea492ddc90d2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>MACEDON, uncertain</b></p><p>c. 500 BCE</p><p>AR trihemitetartemorion (trihemiobol), 6 mm, 0.28 gm</p><p>Obv: monkey squatting left</p><p>Rev: round shield or pellet within incuse square</p><p>Ref: &quot;Uncertain Thraco-Macedonian Coins, Part II&quot;, Nomismatika Khronika (1998, Tzamalis), 67</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2Fmedia%2Fae43f8_28ed51df612844ac939eb41f4c54c159.jpg_srz_p_706_358_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz&amp;hash=9e4ae97edac50d75dc4c7d8a8f757cff" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>IONIA, Klazomenai</b></p><p><b>499-494 BC</b></p><p>AR diobol, 9mm, 1.2 g</p><p>Obv: forepart of winged boar left</p><p>Rev: incuse square</p><p>Ref: Cf. BMC 9-10 (drachm); cf. Traité I 488 (drachm). VF, toned, porous. Very rare with boar left, apparently unpublished as a diobol[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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