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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herodotus, post: 4593742, member: 111387&quot;][USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER] I&#039;m thinking Perseus may have inadvertently slain Artemis of Ephesus in your coin&#039;s depiction.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just recently in the last week happily acquired a couple of this type in a large mixed lot.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Having been a young lad in the early 1980s, I was a fan of the movie &quot;Clash of the Titans&quot;.&nbsp; To now have examples of the coin (that likely inspired one of the scenes in the movie) is pretty neat.</p><p><br /></p><p>The mechanical owl was a popular mainstay of the film as well, so I&#039;m finding the urge to also acquire a nice example of an Athena/Owl tetradrachm.&nbsp; I have a few smaller fractionals of the type, but I may find myself waiting until another large hoard is found, or when/if my attitude changes about the reluctance towards spending multi-hundreds of $ on any single one coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Including the OP, there are some nice examples in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are my Pontos&#039; coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1137545[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1137546[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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