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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 4730121, member: 98035&quot;]Beautiful coin! I&#039;ve been pining for one of those for a while, but can&#039;t justify the expense at this point in my collecting career!</p><p><br /></p><p>Cilician obols rank high among my favorite small Greek silvers</p><p><br /></p><p>The only one with a positive ID - Datames / Arethusa</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158066[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This one probably depicts Artaxerxes III, the sitting Achaemenid emperor at the time</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158069[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And the unnamed / unattributable types</p><p><br /></p><p>Herakles / Aphrodite</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158065[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Herakles facing (note the lion&#039;s paws beneath the chin) and Aphrodite</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158070[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Unidentified satrap with goddess or his wife</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158067[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Possibly the same couple, the other set of mug shots</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158068[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My most unusual related coin is probably the last Janiform portrait, from early medieval pre-Islamic Chach</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1158075[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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