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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 242041, member: 6370&quot;]The inscription says &quot;King Timocharis&quot; in Cyprosyllabic, <span style="color: black">King Timocharis was a king in Cyprus, the Kingdom of Marion, around the 4th century BC and this coin is a composition based on one of his coins </span><span style="color: black">pictured below...It is used by cyprus because they believe that since cyprus is on the path between Phoenicia and Crete...they must have visited Cyprus on the way <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> and off the shores of Cyprus is also the legendary birthplace of Aphrodite but that is another story...This scene is also the logo for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus.</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.mfa.gov.cy/mfa/mfa.nsf/oldcoin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b><font face="Arial">Timocharis, end of 5th century B.C. Silver Diobol, Archaeological Museum of Nicosia</font></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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