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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7895601, member: 19463"]My favorite pirate coin is this Tarkondimotos who was a Cilician pirate who allied with several Imperators along the way until he died shortly before Actium on the wrong side. His coin has the reverse exergue legend 'friend of Antony' but most of them were countermarked on the obverse so as to erase that legend. His sons allied with Octavian. These people were, after all, pirates and pirates loyalty is 'negotiable'. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarcondimotus_I" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarcondimotus_I" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarcondimotus_I</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1363141[/ATTACH] </p><p>My example had the c/m misstruck so it failed to erase the 'friend of Antony' on the reverse making it a better coin than most IMHO. </p><p><br /></p><p>Most kids would rather have a really poor cob 8 reales with no legible date and mint marks making the coin undesirable to most collectors and, hopefully, cheaper. The bad ones are really bad but they are good to pirate's point of view. </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8460721" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8460721" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8460721</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7895601, member: 19463"]My favorite pirate coin is this Tarkondimotos who was a Cilician pirate who allied with several Imperators along the way until he died shortly before Actium on the wrong side. His coin has the reverse exergue legend 'friend of Antony' but most of them were countermarked on the obverse so as to erase that legend. His sons allied with Octavian. These people were, after all, pirates and pirates loyalty is 'negotiable'. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarcondimotus_I[/URL] [ATTACH=full]1363141[/ATTACH] My example had the c/m misstruck so it failed to erase the 'friend of Antony' on the reverse making it a better coin than most IMHO. Most kids would rather have a really poor cob 8 reales with no legible date and mint marks making the coin undesirable to most collectors and, hopefully, cheaper. The bad ones are really bad but they are good to pirate's point of view. [URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8460721[/URL][/QUOTE]
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