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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 2785164, member: 85693&quot;]Some lovely coins in this post.&nbsp; Mine is not lovely at all, a rather green one from Alexandria:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]645370[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Maximinus II Æ Follis</b></p><p><b>(311-313 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Alexandria Mint</b></p><p>IMP C GAL VAL MAXIM</p><p>INVS P F AVG, head right</p><p>/ GENIO AVGVSTI, genius</p><p>holding Serapis, head, star</p><p>top left, N left, branch lower</p><p>left, Δ right, ALE in exergue.</p><p>RIC Alex. 160b; Sear 14843.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wonder if Shakespeare dug one of these up in the ruins of old Londinium - from Wikipedia:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]645375[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tennant" rel="nofollow">David Tennant</a> used the skull of pianist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Tchaikowsky" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Tchaikowsky" rel="nofollow">André Tchaikowsky</a> for Yorick&#039;s skull in a 2008 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Shakespeare_Company" rel="nofollow">Royal Shakespeare Company</a> production.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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