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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24623432, member: 26430&quot;]Fascinating coin, Jochen! I love these coins depicting the intellectual figures of Greek history. I don&#039;t think I knew about this one, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately I didn&#039;t win the coin below, but there was recently a great coin from Soli-Pompeiopolis depicting (probably) Aratus <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10996197" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=10996197" rel="nofollow">auctioned at CNG</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently Hipparchus was a successor/commentator on Aratus&#039; own astronomy.</p><p><br /></p><p>So we might even say Aratus was one of the giants on whose shoulders Hipparchus stood (it&#039;s &quot;giants all the way down&quot;)!</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;[ATTACH=full]1565840[/ATTACH]</p><p>(<b>NOT </b>my coin! Regretful underbidder.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Oddly, CNG neglected to mention that it was previously in two notable collections: Peter Robert Franke (though it was noted as published in his article on the series) and Mark Staal, who published the coin on his interesting page about this&nbsp; topic: <a href="https://ancientcoinage.org/poets-philosophers-astronomers-etc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ancientcoinage.org/poets-philosophers-astronomers-etc.html" rel="nofollow">https://ancientcoinage.org/poets-philosophers-astronomers-etc.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I like the philosopher - poet - astronomer coins...but that doesn&#039;t mean I own any! (Yet. At least none come to mind.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I do have some other 3rd century Provincials from Nikaia, so I&#039;ll throw in a couple of my Severus Alexanders:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1565832[/ATTACH] <i>[click thumbnail to enlarge!]</i></p><p>AE26 (9.58g). Tyche standing.</p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/413347" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/413347" rel="nofollow">RPC VI 3173.4</a> (this coin) = Lindgren &amp; Kovacs 145</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1565831[/ATTACH] <i>[click thumbnail to enlarge!]</i></p><p>(as Ceasar) AE23 (6.21g), 222 CE. Athena standing.</p><p><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/441371" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coin/441371" rel="nofollow">RPC VI 3100.4</a> (this coin) = Lindgren Collection (Duplicate) = Malloy XXXIII, &quot;The Local Coinages of the Roman Empire&quot; (19 Jun 1992), Lot 376 (Plate XI)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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