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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 5221522, member: 91461&quot;]I received this fun little fouree with a very neat depiction of Athena in a lot I picked up a while ago. The problem: the reverse has nearly none of it&#039;s candy coated shell<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and is all the chocolate underneath.</p><p>I was twirling it upside down and rightside up, and was happy to find (I believe) that it&#039;s depicting Herakles choking out the Nemean lion!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216200[/ATTACH]</p><p>11 mm 1.2 gr</p><p><br /></p><p>I recall these types come from Taras as well as Herakleia. Here is my dinger with less detail then the fouree!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216201[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><u>LUCANIA, Herakleia</u></b></p><p><br /></p><p>433-330 BCE. AR Diobol (.7 gm, 10mm). Head of Athena right, wearing Corinthian helmet decorated with hippocamp / Herakles kneeling right, head facing, wrestling with the Nemean lion;</p><p><br /></p><p>Whadya think? Did I nail the ID?</p><p><br /></p><p>Aaand for funzies, moree fourees along with their solid counterparts!!!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216209[/ATTACH] </p><p><b><u>THRACE, Chersonesos</u></b></p><p>386-338 BCE AR Plated Hemidrachm Forepart of lion right,head left / Quadripartite incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; VE monogram to right in opposite sunken quarters. BMC –; McClean 4117; Weber 2415; SNG Copenhagen 830.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216210[/ATTACH] </p><p><b><u>THRACE, Chersonesos.</u></b></p><p>Circa 386-338 BC. AR Hemidrachm (11mm, 2.26 g). Forepart of lion right, head reverted / Quadripartite incuse square with alternating raised and sunken quarters; pellet over AΓ monogram and cicada in opposite sunken quarters. McClean 4096 (described as fly); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG Berry 503. Good VF, minor porosity.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216206[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><u>Illyria</u></b></p><p>(appears plated) c. 250 - 30 BCE - Cow Suckling Calf w/ owl in the top right - Reverse: Square with double Stellate Pattern - Silver Drachma</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1216207[/ATTACH] </p><p><b><u>ILLYRIA. Dyrrhachion</u></b>. Drachm (Circa 229-100 BC) Zoilos and Zopyros, magistrates.</p><p>Obv: ZΩIΛOΣ. </p><p>Cow standing right suckling calf; above, head of Helios; to right, owl.</p><p>Rev: ΔYP ZΩΠYPOY. </p><p>Double stellate pattern within linear borders.</p><p>BMC 72. VF</p><p>Weight: 3.2 g.</p><p>Diameter: 19 mm</p><p><br /></p><p>Please pile em on if you have fourees/plated coins! And bonus points if you have the solid version of that coin![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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