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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 2696935, member: 15445&quot;]Here you go:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]606152[/ATTACH]</p><p>The obverse depicts a charioteer driving a chariot drawn by two mules (an <i>apene</i>). Apene races were first held at the Olympic Games around 500 BC.&nbsp; The tyrant Anaxilas, apparently had an Olympic mule-team victory in 480 B.C. and he commemorated it with this coin type. The design is associated with Messana and the design was kept after Anaxilas’ death in 476 BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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