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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 4573910, member: 85693&quot;]Not sure I can be of much help here, but I&#039;ve been buying a lot of unattributed Greeks off eBay and have recently come across two that are similar, one of which I cannot figure out.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a thunderbolt, but with Ares (or is it Batman?) from Metropolis, Ionia:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132458[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Ionia, Metropolis&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 15</b></p><p><b>(c. 100-50 B.C.)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </b></p><p><b>Diogenes magistrate </b></p><p>Helmeted head of Ares right / ΔIOΓENHΣ, Winged thunderbolt; monogram above.</p><p>SNG Copenhagen 904.</p><p>(4.19 grams / 15 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the one I cannot figure out - Herakles and his club.&nbsp; I think it is from Sicily, but I cannot get the reverse letters to line up with a locale: _K __AT / B(?)AIΩN. </p><p><br /></p><p>The layout reminded me of the OP, so I thought I&#039;d toss it out here (7.80 grams / 20 mm):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132460[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132462[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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