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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2416314, member: 19463&quot;]The Greek coin that followed me home from the show is this silver diobol (reduced standard 1.04g, 10mm) from Teos in Ionia, 320-294 BC.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your choice of the title for this thread depends on how much you like to translate Greek words.&nbsp; I&#039;ve always been a fan of Gryphon for the beast.&nbsp; Lyre is a generic term for more than one stringed instrument.&nbsp; Today we might offend someone by calling their Viola a Violin but few now are that heavily into lyre correctness.&nbsp; The Chelys, as expected from the name, was made from the shell of a turtle as the sound chamber seen here as the round part at the bottom.&nbsp; Instruments made with wood for the chamber would be something else (I believe there were more than one style but I am not a musician). </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teos" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teos" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teos</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]500047[/ATTACH] </p><p>I almost did not buy the coin due to the poor centering but the really good metal and pleasing contrast won me over.&nbsp;&nbsp; I regret the loss of the back end of the Gryphon but I have the whole outreached paw which often gets clipped.&nbsp; More regretted is the loss of all but a trace of the city name THI (of the Teans) at reverse top.&nbsp; The clear legend &quot;Alypion&quot; is the magistrate name.&nbsp; There are others available on similar coins of this type.&nbsp; I went to the show wanting more Greek but ended up buying Roman simply because the Greeks available were either too expensive for my tastes or things insufficiently different from things I have to make me want to buy minor type differences.&nbsp; I find myself buying more at shows according to what I see and like while mail order makes me search a hundred examples of a wanted type.&nbsp; I had no idea I wanted a small silver of Teos but I do like the coin.&nbsp; Besides, I feel I need to buy a critter coin so Steve and the rest of you can show others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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