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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 8130814, member: 56859&quot;]Beautiful portrait!&nbsp; Love that reddish brown patina.&nbsp; Looks like leather.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of very worn but interesting winged thunderbolts:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2Fmedia%2Fae43f8_0702cab9a1514373b899ff1679ca33f9.jpg%2Fv1%2Ffill%2Fw_1000%2Ch_428%2Cal_c%2Cq_90%2Fae43f8_0702cab9a1514373b899ff1679ca33f9.jpg&amp;hash=9c71e2ffe880b394913d4c53581dd968" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>ELIS, Olympia. 87th Olympiad, 432 BCE</b></p><p>AR hemidrachm, 16 mm, 2.7 gm</p><p>Obv: eagle, with wings displayed above, flying left, holding hare by its back and tearing at it with his beak</p><p>Rev: thunderbolt, with wings above and volutes below, within circular incuse; to right, A.</p><p>Ref: BCD Olympia -; BCD Peloponnesos -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC -; Traité -; SNG Delepierre -; Pozzi -; Weber -; McClean -.</p><p>The obverse type, combined with the form of the thunderbolt, with its broad, splayed wings, and the A on the reverse, is most similar to the stater of BCD 50.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.wixstatic.com%2Fmedia%2Fae43f8_6c9a61bca59e4495b533b7fcd8b0fad7.jpg%2Fv1%2Ffill%2Fw_1000%2Ch_494%2Cal_c%2Cq_90%2Fae43f8_6c9a61bca59e4495b533b7fcd8b0fad7.jpg&amp;hash=0cd65f91e4887608601bb1fde713ceee" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>ELIS, Olympia. 95th Olympiad, 400 BCE</b></p><p>AR hemidrachm, 16 mm, 2.6 gm</p><p>Obv: head and neck of eagle right; F below</p><p>Rev: thunderbolt, volutes above, wings below, F-A across fields</p><p>Ref: BCD Olympia 85/84 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 372[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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