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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dadams, post: 3290903, member: 82194&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman">I totally missed this thread just before Christmas <i>last year . . . </i></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </i>Besides my Saturnalia gift received I had not expected to have any new coins enter the collection in December but I was amazingly surprised with this terrific gift and thought it deserving to be here among the fine collection of Hieron coins everyone has posted:</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/Coins2/90187q00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Syracuse, Sicily. Hieron II (275-215 BC)</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Æ28, 28.2mm, 16.838g, die axis 270o. Syracuse mint, c. 230-215 BC.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Obv: Head of Hieron to left, diademed : border of dots.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Rev: ΙΕΡΩΝΟΣ - horseman prancing right, holding couched spear, N lower right.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Ref: Calciati II p. 381, 195; SNG ANS 924; SNG Cop 839; SNG Morcom 822; HGC 2, 1548; BMC Sicily p. 217, 588.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Ex. Forum Ancient Coins</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Ex. @Aethlred</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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