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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2208780, member: 19463&quot;]My favorite lizard is the coin type showing Apollo Sauroktonos and is relatively common from Nicopolis but is not always easy to find with a clear lizard.&nbsp; This one is from Geta.&nbsp; Note that the coins do not require cross supports as did the marble copies so probably look more like the original bronze than what we have in the Louve. </p><p><br /></p><p>The young Apollo is doing as boys where anoles live are wont to do and grabbing a lizard from a tree.&nbsp; There are also coins showing him darting the lizard but the original of Praxiteles that survived only in Roman copies showed the hand method.&nbsp; Sauroktonos means &#039;lizard slayer&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Apollo_Saurocton_Louvre.jpg/200px-Apollo_Saurocton_Louvre.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/apgeta.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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