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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4407535, member: 19463&quot;]If you recognize the letter is an A, why show the reverse upside down?&nbsp; Even this 5mm, 1.6g tetartemorion shows the A if you use a little imagination.&nbsp; Many/most ancient anchors were shown what modern folks consider to be inverted.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1107010[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This Apollonia suffered a bad accident with a knife.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1107009[/ATTACH]</p><p>When I got it in 1991, we were happy to find a coin not of the &#039;Black Sea Hoard&#039; group of fakes.&nbsp; I wish I had one to illustrate here.&nbsp; Does anyone?</p><p><br /></p><p>Why yes they do:</p><p><a href="http://snible.org/coins/black_sea_hoard.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snible.org/coins/black_sea_hoard.html" rel="nofollow">http://snible.org/coins/black_sea_hoard.html</a></p><p>Read the story about how they came to be.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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