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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 24795328, member: 85693&quot;]Oooo, I love this coin <a href="https://www.numisforums.com/profile/220-jayag47/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisforums.com/profile/220-jayag47/" rel="nofollow">@JayAg47</a>.&nbsp; It has been a kind of bucket-list coin for me since the 1980s when I saw it on the cover of one of the Penguin Classics paperbacks:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347993586i/279463.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347993586i/279463.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1347993586i/279463.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>(photo from Goodreads)</p><p><br /></p><p>Same guy, but not nearly as pretty, here is one I recently got from an eBay undescribed lot.&nbsp; It isn&#039;t in horrible shape, but unfortunately it has one of those green-brown patinas that looks like duck hunter&#039;s camo, making it very hard to see.&nbsp; The reverse is a trophy arranged to look like Athena, which is kind of interesting:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_11/image.jpeg.dc508f09019dffac06927e2bbfbad531.jpeg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_11/image.jpeg.dc508f09019dffac06927e2bbfbad531.jpeg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://content.invisioncic.com/k321387/monthly_2023_11/image.jpeg.dc508f09019dffac06927e2bbfbad531.jpeg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Kingdom of Thrace&nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 21 Lysimachos (c. 295/294 - 289/288 B.C.) Uncertain Western Asia Minor&nbsp; or Uncertain Macedonian Mint</b> Young male head (or Athena) right, wearing Phrygian helmet / AΣIΛ[EΩΣ] ΛYΣIMAXOY, trophy of arms resembling Athena standing left. (6.07 grams / 21 x 20 mm) eBay Oct. 2023 Attribution:&nbsp; SNG Copenhagen 1164-7; Mueller pl. 2, 13; HGC 3.2, 1755;&nbsp; Sear SG 6818.&nbsp; Note:&nbsp; Wildwinds says obverse head is Athena; auctions say &quot;young male head.&quot; Demos, Leu &amp; CNG say &quot;Uncertain mint in Western Asia&nbsp; Minor&quot; Agora says &quot;Uncertain Macedonian mint, struck 295/4-289/8&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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