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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24672204, member: 26430&quot;]Here&#039;s one of my newer additions to the Olympic Pantheon.... and it&#039;s from Olympia!</p><p><br /></p><p>Hera keeping an eye on Zeus&#039; (Cleopatra&#039;s?) eagle.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/elis-olympia-e1trwh-jpg.1565798/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><blockquote><p><b>ELIS, Olympia Æ Dupondius-Diassarion (?)</b> (25-27mm, 12.56 g, 1h), <i>temp</i>. Antony &amp; Cleopatra, c. 31 BCE.</p><p><b>Obverse</b>: Head of Hera right, wearing stephane &amp; necklace.</p><p><b>Reverse</b>: Eagle standing right on thunderbolt; F-A across field, monogram (K or Y + Retrograde Γ = Ꞁ) to lower right.</p><p><b>Ref (BCD)</b>: BCD Olympia 307 (same monogram, different dies); </p><p><b>Prov</b>: Philipsen (<a href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/hirsch_jacob1909_11_29/0308/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/hirsch_jacob1909_11_29/0308/" rel="nofollow">Hirsch XXV (25 Nov 1909), 1300</a>); Warren (<a href="https://archive.org/details/MonnaiesAntiquesGrecquesRomainesXV" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/MonnaiesAntiquesGrecquesRomainesXV" rel="nofollow">Naville <i>Ars Classica</i> XV (2 Jul 1930), 809</a>); RK Morcom; Christopher Morcom; P. R. Franke. </p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><font size="6"><b>NEXT</b>: More Olympians </font></p> <p style="text-align: center"><font size="6">(including more of those same Olympians)</font></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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