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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 4856831, member: 56859&quot;]I like the type... reminds me of a favorite band <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.retrozap.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Rush.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_510/https://www.midweststickershop.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/rush-2-510x454.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe that&#039;s also why I have a thing for Zeus Ammon <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2Fmedia%2Fae43f8_8fd3023bfd1c4e7ba87e0f4aeae32178.jpg%2Fv1%2Ffill%2Fw_1000%2Ch_505%2Cal_c%2Cq_90%2Fae43f8_8fd3023bfd1c4e7ba87e0f4aeae32178.jpg&amp;hash=76b5cce635360f03cb60edf7e6a72b27" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>MYSIA, Pitane</b></p><p>AE, 4th-3rd c. BCE</p><p>9 mm, 0.64 gm</p><p>Obv: Head of Zeus Ammon right</p><p>Rev: ΠΙΤΑ; Pentagram, branch in center</p><p>Ref: BMC 5-10 var. (pellet in center)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a fun Z-A, a Robert Ready electrotype of a coin I can never own.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/readyelectrotype-rt-jpg.463688/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>KYRENAIKA, Kyrene</b></p><p><b>modern copy by electrotypist Robert Ready</b></p><p>host coin, c. 410-400 BCE, acquired by the British Museum in 1872</p><p>AR &quot;tetradrachm&quot;, 27 mm, 16.64 gm</p><p>Obv: Bearded head of Zeus-Ammon, wearing tainia with uraeus-like ornament at forehead, facing slightly left within laurel wreath</p><p>Rev: silphium plant; K V P A N A (split between fields, retrograde K)</p><p>Edge: initials R R</p><p>Ref: BMC 77 (host coin); B.V. Head. <i>A guide to the principal coins of the Greeks, from circ. 700 B.C. to A.D. 270</i>. London. 1965 pl. 20, 61 (host coin); host coin BM accession number 1872,0709.361; B.V. Head. <i>A Guide to the Select Greek and Roman Coins Exhibited in Electrotype</i>, London. 1880. Period III C #44.</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-a-copy-will-have-to-suffice.272376/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-a-copy-will-have-to-suffice.272376/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-a-copy-will-have-to-suffice.272376/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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