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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 7878638, member: 98035&quot;]Just got my Stack&#039;s winnings from the FedEx man!</p><p><br /></p><p>As suspected-</p><p><br /></p><p>Seleukos I as Satrap of Babylon</p><p>311-305 BC</p><p>AR Dishekel</p><p>Ba&#039;al seated left / Lion walking left, anchor above</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1358395[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Sadly, at least 5 of the coins in the lot were immediately apparent as fakes, so this won&#039;t be a home run lot for me. Still, the dishekel is IMO worth about what I paid for the lot, so whatever else is icing on the cake.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fun bonus - the lot unexpectedly came with a bunch of old, tattered paper envelopes with handwritten identification and some provenances- I spotted dates like &quot;Purchased 1935&quot; in there! This beats my next oldest provenance (with hard evidence to back it up) which was 1970s sales tickets for some Republican denarii.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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