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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herodotus, post: 5004504, member: 111387&quot;]You bet.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m actually fairly new to ancients collecting, but I&#039;ve had a few months under my belt locating the free resources available to aid in attributing coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though the theme of &#039;Apollo&#039;/&#039;Tripod&#039; is fairly common, this type seems to be somewhat rare from my own discoveries.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s not a whole lot of info about Bisanthe(Bizanthe) available.&nbsp; What is out there is a handful of references by ancient historians &amp; a few other limited records -- Of which we know that most have been lost throughout the ages.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wikipedia has a small write-up on the ancient city, and <a href="https://topostext.org/place/410275UBis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://topostext.org/place/410275UBis" rel="nofollow">THIS LINK</a> shows a little info on some of the historical records of reference.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your coin looks to be in pretty nice shape. Cool specimen.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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