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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3211743, member: 57495"]Neat little junk bin find. I don’t have a Perdikkas III, but this Greek silver of the Oitaioi has a wonderful depiction of a lion’s head with a spear in its jaws. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/thessaly-oitaioi-hemidrachm-jpg.819622/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><b>THESSALY, Oitaioi</b></p><p>AR Hemidrachm. 2.75g, 16.3mm. THESSALY, Oitaioi, circa 360-344 BC. Valassiadis 1; BCD Thessaly I 1211 (same rev. die); BCD Thessaly II 487 (same rev. die); HGC 4, 129 (same obv. die as illustration). O: Head of lion left, with spear in jaws. R: OIT-[AO]N (retrograde), Herakles standing facing, holding club.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3211743, member: 57495"]Neat little junk bin find. I don’t have a Perdikkas III, but this Greek silver of the Oitaioi has a wonderful depiction of a lion’s head with a spear in its jaws. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/thessaly-oitaioi-hemidrachm-jpg.819622/[/IMG][B]THESSALY, Oitaioi[/B] AR Hemidrachm. 2.75g, 16.3mm. THESSALY, Oitaioi, circa 360-344 BC. Valassiadis 1; BCD Thessaly I 1211 (same rev. die); BCD Thessaly II 487 (same rev. die); HGC 4, 129 (same obv. die as illustration). O: Head of lion left, with spear in jaws. R: OIT-[AO]N (retrograde), Herakles standing facing, holding club.[/QUOTE]
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