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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3788528, member: 82322"]There is no need for a skew punch. The cities of Boeotia had obols with the first letter of their town or a symbol.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75229" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75229" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75229</a> wheel</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75792" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75792" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75792</a> amphora</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75589" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75589" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75589</a> H</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75594" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75594" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75594</a> Q</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75782" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75782" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75782</a> Archaic Q</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75603" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75603" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75603</a> M</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins are so rare that the only place I have seen them was at the 2006 auction of the world's best collection of the type.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem here is that Mr. BCD only knew of one other specimen, "Lucien de Hirsch 1237". I believe that refers to the 1959 catalog of the coins donated to the royal library in Belgium. Which would make your specimen the third. Not a lot got past Mr. BCD, who had the world's largest privately own collection of books on Greek numismatics and a full-time librarian for them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3788528, member: 82322"]There is no need for a skew punch. The cities of Boeotia had obols with the first letter of their town or a symbol. [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75229[/URL] wheel [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75792[/URL] amphora [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75589[/URL] H [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75594[/URL] Q [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75782[/URL] Archaic Q [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=75603[/URL] M These coins are so rare that the only place I have seen them was at the 2006 auction of the world's best collection of the type. The problem here is that Mr. BCD only knew of one other specimen, "Lucien de Hirsch 1237". I believe that refers to the 1959 catalog of the coins donated to the royal library in Belgium. Which would make your specimen the third. Not a lot got past Mr. BCD, who had the world's largest privately own collection of books on Greek numismatics and a full-time librarian for them.[/QUOTE]
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