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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2122025, member: 42773&quot;]Me neither. Evidently a minor city in the Troad region of Anatolia. It fades in and out of written history, and wasn&#039;t rediscovered until 1888. Serious excavation didn&#039;t occur till 1959. There&#039;s a brief article on wiki <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antandrus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antandrus" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Evidently the folks of Antandrus started minting their own coinage around 440 BC. They were fond of lions.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Mat&#039;s thread I commented that in the world of ancients, rarities aren&#039;t rare. You occasionally stumble on a coin that would be next to impossible to find if you went looking for it. This is a case in point. I can find no examples of this type on the web. Wildwinds and acsearch show a few right-facing lions, but none turned 1/4 left. It&#039;s SNG Cop. 218, and an itsy-bitsy thing at 1.83g. Great detail for a coin-speck, no?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]402367[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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