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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3779667, member: 57495"]I really love how you took highroad and decided not to lowball the seller and just picked up that little diamond in the rough for the asking price. Oh, wait, that's not the story... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Seriously, though... cool coin, well-scored, great clean-up job, and fun writeup. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1009691[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>LYCIA, Dynasts. Mithrapata.</b></p><p>AR Sixth Stater (Diobol). 1.4g, 13.7mm. LYCIA, Uncertain mint, circa 390-370 BC. CNG E-398, lot 291 (otherwise unpublished). O: Lion scalp facing. R: Triskeles; labrys in one section, Lycian legend around; all within incuse square. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1009696[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CRETE, Knossos</b></p><p>AE19. 5.83g, 19.4mm. Knossos-Gortyna alliance issue, struck circa 220 BC. Svoronos 122; SNG Copenhagen 378; Lindgren II 1721. O: Europa, holding veil, seated left on bull leaping left; radiating lines in periphery, two dolphins below. R: [Κ-Ν-Ω-ΣΙ-ΩΝ], Labyrinth; star above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3779667, member: 57495"]I really love how you took highroad and decided not to lowball the seller and just picked up that little diamond in the rough for the asking price. Oh, wait, that's not the story... :p Seriously, though... cool coin, well-scored, great clean-up job, and fun writeup. :) [ATTACH=full]1009691[/ATTACH] [B]LYCIA, Dynasts. Mithrapata.[/B] AR Sixth Stater (Diobol). 1.4g, 13.7mm. LYCIA, Uncertain mint, circa 390-370 BC. CNG E-398, lot 291 (otherwise unpublished). O: Lion scalp facing. R: Triskeles; labrys in one section, Lycian legend around; all within incuse square. [ATTACH=full]1009696[/ATTACH] [B]CRETE, Knossos[/B] AE19. 5.83g, 19.4mm. Knossos-Gortyna alliance issue, struck circa 220 BC. Svoronos 122; SNG Copenhagen 378; Lindgren II 1721. O: Europa, holding veil, seated left on bull leaping left; radiating lines in periphery, two dolphins below. R: [Κ-Ν-Ω-ΣΙ-ΩΝ], Labyrinth; star above.[/QUOTE]
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