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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3377657, member: 82322"]Great coins [USER=99716]@Jochen[/USER], [USER=32619]@Jwt708[/USER], [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER], and [USER=41036]@arizonarobin[/USER] ! I have been unsuccessful in finding a nimbate snake or agathodaemon for my collection. I am admiring yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>I may have a Glycon of my own. The one I found is poor. A friend of mine has a great one (<a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=318236" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=318236" rel="nofollow">this one</a>), you should probably look at his instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, here's mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]896201[/ATTACH] </p><p>Amasia, Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD), AE 24, 6.01g</p><p>Obv: [A]U KA [ANTWNINO]; Bust</p><p>Rev: AMAS [MHTR] / ET RN[H]; Snake (Glycon/Glykon?) on basket (cista?)</p><p>Ref: Lindgren and Kovacs A7A, SNG von Aulock 6698</p><p>ex-Clark's Ancients, List 119, November 2004, lot 452</p><p>ex-Seven Seas, April 1980</p><p><br /></p><p>The snake looked strange to me but I didn't pick up that it was possibly Glycon until I read <a href="https://www.coinsweekly.com/en/Archive/Alexander-of-Abonuteichos--a-lesson-from-Asia-Minor-about-gullibility-in-the-2nd-cent-A-D/8?&id=140&type=a" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coinsweekly.com/en/Archive/Alexander-of-Abonuteichos--a-lesson-from-Asia-Minor-about-gullibility-in-the-2nd-cent-A-D/8?&id=140&type=a" rel="nofollow">this article</a> by Ursula Kampmann.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3377657, member: 82322"]Great coins [USER=99716]@Jochen[/USER], [USER=32619]@Jwt708[/USER], [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER], and [USER=41036]@arizonarobin[/USER] ! I have been unsuccessful in finding a nimbate snake or agathodaemon for my collection. I am admiring yours. I may have a Glycon of my own. The one I found is poor. A friend of mine has a great one ([URL='https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=318236']this one[/URL]), you should probably look at his instead. Anyway, here's mine: [ATTACH=full]896201[/ATTACH] Amasia, Antoninus Pius (138-161 AD), AE 24, 6.01g Obv: [A]U KA [ANTWNINO]; Bust Rev: AMAS [MHTR] / ET RN[H]; Snake (Glycon/Glykon?) on basket (cista?) Ref: Lindgren and Kovacs A7A, SNG von Aulock 6698 ex-Clark's Ancients, List 119, November 2004, lot 452 ex-Seven Seas, April 1980 The snake looked strange to me but I didn't pick up that it was possibly Glycon until I read [URL='https://www.coinsweekly.com/en/Archive/Alexander-of-Abonuteichos--a-lesson-from-Asia-Minor-about-gullibility-in-the-2nd-cent-A-D/8?&id=140&type=a']this article[/URL] by Ursula Kampmann.[/QUOTE]
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