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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2664907, member: 57495&quot;]I like both your wins, [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER] - I briefly considered bidding on the Cato myself <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t fancy my chances of ever winning a Dattari coin, but I did come away with this nice Neandreia obol below from the Clain-Stefanelli collection.&nbsp; It adds to my small side collection of coins from Troas.&nbsp; I hope to eventually get at least one coin from every mint in the region - this one brings me up to 17 out of 25.&nbsp; It comes with an extensive pedigree that I haven&#039;t researched, but previous owners appear to include a 19th century English archaeologist and clergyman, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Edward Perry Warren, a somewhat notorious &quot;gentleman scholar&quot; and collector of erotic artwork.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]591980[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>TROAS, Neandreia</b></p><p>AR Obol. 0.60g, 8mm. Circa 4th century BC. SNG Copenhagen 446; SNG von Aulock 7628; Warren 1046 = Boston MFA 1663 (this coin). O: Laureate head of Apollo right. R: NEA-N, ram standing right.</p><p><i>Ex E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection; Ex Hunt Collection (Sotheby&#039;s, 1992, lot 578); Ex Boston Museum of Fine Arts (NFA VIII, 1980, lot 218); Ex Edward Perry Warren Collection; Ex Canon William Greenwell Collection.</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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