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<p>[QUOTE="ancientnut, post: 2266421, member: 73212"]With all the off-center coins in this thread, it makes me appreciate this coin even more. It seems to be very difficult to find Syracuse tetradrachms with all obverse devices on the flan. Here is the first coin I purchased when I returned to collecting ancients two years ago.</p><p><a href="http://s95.photobucket.com/user/ancientnut/media/21Syracuse_zps289cf07e.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s95.photobucket.com/user/ancientnut/media/21Syracuse_zps289cf07e.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l155/ancientnut/21Syracuse_zps289cf07e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>Even this one is not perfectly centered, but it is one of the few examples I've seen where the driver, the wheel under him, Nike, the horse's heads, and the sea serpent in the exergue are all on the flan...even about half the beading around the edge![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ancientnut, post: 2266421, member: 73212"]With all the off-center coins in this thread, it makes me appreciate this coin even more. It seems to be very difficult to find Syracuse tetradrachms with all obverse devices on the flan. Here is the first coin I purchased when I returned to collecting ancients two years ago. [URL=http://s95.photobucket.com/user/ancientnut/media/21Syracuse_zps289cf07e.jpg.html][IMG]http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l155/ancientnut/21Syracuse_zps289cf07e.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Even this one is not perfectly centered, but it is one of the few examples I've seen where the driver, the wheel under him, Nike, the horse's heads, and the sea serpent in the exergue are all on the flan...even about half the beading around the edge![/QUOTE]
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