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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 3939558, member: 83175&quot;]Spain has had a few issues of coins reproducing ancients - up to the 9th series now, I see - <a href="http://www.fnmt.es/en/coleccionista/emisiones-2019/ix-serie-joyas-numismaticas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.fnmt.es/en/coleccionista/emisiones-2019/ix-serie-joyas-numismaticas" rel="nofollow">http://www.fnmt.es/en/coleccionista/emisiones-2019/ix-serie-joyas-numismaticas</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few of the earlier ones I picked up.</p><p><br /></p><p>10 Euro / Drachm of Emporion.&nbsp;&nbsp; I visited the ruins of Emporion/Empuriés in 2008 and picked this up in Madrid Airport in May 2009, returning from a wedding, I think.</p><p>I&#039;ve since got a real drachm from Emporion, but this filled the spot for a while:</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Espana_10E.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>While the 10 Euro coin is much larger than the original (27g vs ~4g), this is a much smaller gold coin than the aureus it reproduces.&nbsp;&nbsp; It&#039;s a 1.24g reproduction of an aureus of Augustus - BMC 317, originally minted in Caesar Augusta (Zaragoza).</p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Espana_20E.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Last, but not least, I picked up this at the Madrid mint in 2012 - a reproduction of a Hispano-Punic coin of Hannibal.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was quite happy with this photo&#039; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/images/coins/lg_Espana_10E_2011.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the owl of Athens persists on the Greek €1 coin, which is in general circulation and I get the occasional one in change.</p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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