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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7968155, member: 110350&quot;]12-hour rule: </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of examples of Athena at least heading towards combat, even if she&#039;s not necessarily engaged in it yet:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1381800[/ATTACH] </p><p>Thessalian League (under Roman Republic from 146 BCE, Province of Macedonia). Late 2nd-mid 1st centuries BCE, AR Stater ( = Double Victoriatus* = 1.5 denarius), Magistrates Sosipatros and Gorgopas. Obv. Laureate head of Zeus right / Rev. Helmeted Athena Itonia advancing right, holding shield with left hand and preparing to hurl spear with right hand; vertical legend ΘΕΣΣΑ-ΛΩN to left and right of Athena; [ΣΩ]ΣIΠ-ATPOΣ above spear; ΓOPΓΩΠΑΣ in exergue. BCD Thessaly II 861.2 [CNG, <i>The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly</i>, Triton XV Auction, Jan. 3, 2012, Lot 861.2 (<i>this coin</i>)]; HGC 4, 209 [Hoover, Oliver, <i>Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece: . . . Thessaly . . . ., Sixth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage </i>Thessaly<i> Series,Vol. 4</i> (2014)]; SNG Soutzos 397 [Tsourti, E. and Trifiro, M.D., <i>Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Greece 5: Numismatic Museum, Athens, The A. G. Soutzos Collection</i> (Athens, 2007)]; Klose pp. 339 &amp; 346, 2 (same dies) [Klose, D.O.A, &quot;<i>Zur Chronologie der thessalischen Koinonprägungen im 2. und 1. Jh. v. Chr.</i>, <i>Ein weiterer Schatzfund aus Südthessalien</i>,&quot; in Peter, Ulrike. ed., <i>Stephanos nomismatikos: Edith Schönert-Geiss zum 65. Geburtstag</i> (Berlin, 1998), at pp. 333-350]. 22 mm., 6.08 g., 2 h. [<i>According to BCD: From Franke Hoard, Greece, found Summer 1983.]</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1381799[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Thessaly, Thessalian League (under Roman Republic from 146 BCE, Province of Macedonia). Mid-late 1st century BCE, AR Stater ( = Double Victoriatus* = 1.5 denarius), Magistrates Italos and Diokles. Obv. Head of Zeus right, wearing oak wreath, [ITAΛOY] [<i>behind head</i>, <i>off flan</i>] / Rev. Helmeted Athena Itonia advancing right, holding shield with left hand and preparing to hurl spear with right hand; vertical legend ΘΕΣΣΑ-ΛΩN to left and right of Athena; ΔIO-KΛHΣ above spear, N-I across field. BCD Thessaly II 874.4 [CNG, <i>The BCD Collection of the Coinage of Thessaly</i>, Triton XV Auction, Jan. 3, 2012, Lot 874.4 (<i>this coin</i>)]; HGC 4, 210 [Hoover, Oliver, <i>Handbook of Coins of Northern and Central Greece: . . . Thessaly . . . ., Sixth to First Centuries BC, The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series,Vol. 4</i> (2014)]; McClean II 4797-4798 [Grose, S., <i>Catalogue of the McClean Collection of Greek Coins, Fitzwilliam Museum, Vol. II, The Greek Mainland, the Aegean islands, Crete</i> (Cambridge, 1926)]. 20 mm., 6.09 g., 12 h. [<i>According to BCD: From Hoard found Dec. 1996, West of Karditsa,Thessaly, Greece.</i>]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next: another female deity wielding a spear and shield.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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