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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 2639471, member: 15445&quot;]Last summer we traversed the locks on the Champlain canal and the Erie canal.&nbsp; This boat docked next to us. I&#039;ve been married to an Irish girl for 35 years so the translation came naturally to me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]582066[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here is a shield to keep it coin related:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]582068[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>BOEOTIA, Thebes</b></p><p><b>AR Stater</b></p><p><b>ca. 395-338 B.C.</b></p><p>12.05 gms,&nbsp; 21 mm</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Boeotian Shield</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Amphora with ΘE-OT across field</p><p>&nbsp; all within incuse concave circle.</p><p><b>Grade:</b> aVF nicely centered with some</p><p>&nbsp; horn silver</p><p><b>Other:</b> Theot-, magistrate. Struck circa 363-348 BC. Similar to Sear 2384 &amp; 2389, Hepworth 60, BCD Boiotia 546.&nbsp; From Allen Berman September 2013.</p><p>Thebes was perhaps the greatest &amp; largest city in ancient Greece.&nbsp; Located in central Greece, the city was the arch-rival of Athens, supported Sparta during the Peloponnesian war and was subsequently destroyed by Alexander the Great.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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