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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 7935129, member: 83845&quot;]Absolutely beautiful [USER=17304]@kazuma78[/USER] ! With coins like these I look forward to seeing your top 10 this year. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my favorite little coin. Also a Magnesia ad Meander (struck by Themistokles).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372585[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum</font></p><p><font size="3">Themistokles, AR Hemiobol, struck ca. 465-459 BC</font></p><p><font size="3">Dia.: 8 mm</font></p><p><font size="3">Wt.: 0.24 g</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv.: Head of Hephaistos right, wearing laureate pilos; Θ-E flanking /</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev.: ΘE monogram in dotted square border within incuse square.</font></p><p><font size="3">Ref.: Nollé &amp; Wenninger 5a; Cahn &amp; Gerin 8 = SNG München 585; SNG Copenhagen; </font></p><p><font size="3">Very rare.</font></p><p><font size="3">Ex Plankenhorn Collection of Ionian Coins</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p>...and here is a not quite so small Thasos. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372586[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Islands off Thrace</font></p><p><font size="3">Thasos AR Tetradracm, struck ca. 140-110 BC</font></p><p><font size="3">Dia.: 29 mm</font></p><p><font size="3">Wt.: 16.58 g</font></p><p><font size="3">Obv.: Wreathed head of Dionysus, right</font></p><p><font size="3">Rev.: Hercules standing right holding club; ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ in left field, ΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΥΣ in right field, ΘΑΣΙΟΝ in exergue. Μ to left of figure.</font></p><p><font size="3">Ref.: Thasiennes 51</font></p><p><font size="3">Ex arnoldoe Collection</font></p><p><font size="3"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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