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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24859991, member: 26430&quot;]As [USER=135271]@The Meat man[/USER] commented, it&#039;s a type of Antigonos II Gonatas (277-239 BCE). Athena on the obverse &amp; Pan erecting a trophy on the reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>Someone correct me if I&#039;m wrong, but I think the trophy alludes to his victory over Pyrrhus and his Gallic mercenaries, and other Gauls that Antigonos drove from Macedonia. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is small but not too out of the ordinary. (I&#039;ve had many of these &amp; they vary quite a bit in size, quality &amp; style.) I do wonder, however, if it isn&#039;t an imitative type. The reverse is pretty good style (albeit on too small a flan) but the obverse/Athena strikes me as crude. (Wouldn&#039;t it be ironic to have a Gallic imitation of Antigonos II?!) </p><p><br /></p><p>You can see examples linked here: </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Antigonos+gonatas+athena+pan+trophy&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Antigonos+gonatas+athena+pan+trophy&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=4" rel="nofollow">Official examples</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Antigonos+gonatas+imita+ae&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Antigonos+gonatas+imita+ae&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=4" rel="nofollow">Imitations</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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