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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3696984, member: 91461&quot;]Fun new coin from a very interesting area! The reverse is fantastic!!!</p><p>I&#039;ve a few Lydian coins. And the prices are hard to beat.</p><p>&nbsp;Here are some of my favs:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]990833[/ATTACH] </p><p>LYDIA, Sardes</p><p>2nd - 1st Century BCE Æ Laureate bust of a young Herakles right, lion&#039;s skin tied around neck / Nude Apollo standing left, holding bird in extended right hand, laurel branch in left; monogram before, magistrate HRAIOS ; all within laurel wreath. SNG Copenhagen 493; BMC Lydia pg. 240, 36. Good VF, dark olive green patina.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]990834[/ATTACH] </p><p>Thyateira, Lydia</p><p>AD 1-100, AE14, semi-autonomous issue. Bearded head of Herakles right / ΘYATEIΡHNΩN, bipennis(double-axe; labrys). BMC 8; RPC I 2379; SNG Tuebingen 3838.</p><p><br /></p><p>... And it doesn&#039;t hurt that they imitated one of my favorite coin designs:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]990839[/ATTACH] </p><p>LYDIA, Philadelphia. 2nd-1st centuries BC. Æ (13mm, 4.10g). Herrmippos, magistrate. Macedonian shield / Horiztontalthunderbolt; EPMIΠ/ΠOΣ in two lines above; all within wreath. SNG von Aulock 3060; SNG Copenhagen 342. VF, Ex: Savoca[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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