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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 4860541, member: 42034&quot;]Another Hexassarian, 34 mm dia, 16.99 grams.&nbsp; This one from Pergamum in Turkey down from the Dardanelles in the Turkish Straits.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Attalids made the city of Pergamum one of the most important and beautiful of all Greek cities in the Hellenistic Age; it is one of the most outstanding examples of city planning in that period. They built a library excelled only by that at <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Alexandria-Egypt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Alexandria-Egypt" rel="nofollow">Alexandria</a>.</p><p>-- from Britannica</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1173797[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly this is a coin that I bid on but didn&#039;t win.&nbsp; Thus my namesake coin remains the $15 antoninnanius I bought many years ago which is not that nice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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