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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2481701, member: 56859&quot;]Five stars for the Lost in Space reference <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve also relied on <a href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/images/misc/histaiacomp.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/images/misc/histaiacomp.jpg" rel="nofollow">Barry Murphy&#039;s page about fake Histiaia tetrobols</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Roma and others continue to sell the straight hair &amp; pellets types.&nbsp; I posted a couple of those Roma listings for discussion on the Forvm fakes board and there was surprisingly little discussion.&nbsp; Joe Sermarini wrote that not everyone agrees about the straight hair &amp; pellets types being fake.&nbsp; Hmm.&nbsp; I certainly don&#039;t know what to think about it.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=104160.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=104160.0" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=104160.0</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I bought one in the earliest stages of my collecting and was lucky to have avoided a fake, although I did check databases before bidding.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_800b2876c29a4cecbb0a63ade40962bd.jpg/v1/fill/w_960,h_498,al_c,lg_1,q_90/ae43f8_800b2876c29a4cecbb0a63ade40962bd.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>EUBOIA, Histiaia</b></p><p>340-330 BCE <i>[not sure where I got the date; may not be correct]</i></p><p>AR tetrobol, 13 mm, 2.3 gm</p><p>Obv: head of nymph Histiaia right</p><p>Rev: AIEΩN; nymph seated on stern of galley right; IX (XI?) below</p><p>Ref: Sear Greek 2496[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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