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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1230781, member: 19463&quot;]But there is writing:&nbsp; On the reverse are Greek letters spelling out Philip (II) father of Alexander he Great.&nbsp; This is a modern item copying a reverse used by Philip II and often copied by Celtic tribes.&nbsp; I&#039;d say this modern copy was copied from one of those Celticized&nbsp; versions.&nbsp; The small figure on the horse is supposed to refer to Philip&#039;s winning of an Olympic Equestrian event.&nbsp; Originals came in large silver which I don&#039;t own and small bronzes that are very common.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH]131123.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>The style of this looks very much like things that were passed out in ads for books on ancient culture in the middle of the last century but I have not seen this exact piece.&nbsp; Originals had a head of Apollo or Zeus but there are horses facing either way on different coins.&nbsp; My bronze shows all the name together while the link and your copy shows it split up continuing around the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=97344" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=97344" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=97344</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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