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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2250609, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Nice ... wow, those are some very cool coins and/or provenances ... </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; Ummm, I bought a couple of winners at an auction ... cool enough?</span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Sicily, Syracuse. Hieron I AR Tetradrachm</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">(240 Onkia)</span></b></p><p>478-466 BC</p><p>Struck circa 478-475 BC</p><p>Diameter: 24 mm</p><p>Weight: 16.90 grams</p><p>Obverse: Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses</p><p>Reverse: Diademed head of Arethusa right; four dolphins around</p><p>Reference: Boehringer series IXa, 190 (V86/R130); SNG ANS –; Randazzo 356 (same dies)</p><p>Other: 2h, Near VF, toned, test cut on reverse</p><p><i><span style="color: #5900b3">From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection, Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May <font size="6">1906</font>), lot 1132</span></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]445333[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Sicily, Syracuse Æ Hemidrachm</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Timoleon and the Third Democracy</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">(30 Onkia)</span></b></p><p>344-317 BC</p><p>Timoleontic Symmachy coinage. 1st series, circa 344-339/8 BC</p><p>Diameter: 24 mm</p><p>Weight: 16.94 grams</p><p>Obverse: Laureate head of Zeus Eleutherios right</p><p>Reverse: Upright thunderbolt; to right, eagle standing right</p><p>Reference: Castrizio series I, 1γ; CNS 72; SNG ANS 477-88</p><p>Other: 9h, Good VF, red-brown patina, a few areas of roughness</p><p><i><span style="color: #8000ff">From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection, Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May <font size="6">1906</font>), lot 1227</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]445334[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Hmmm, an auction over 100 years ago ... man, that must have been a different crowd, eh? (I doubt they let my Great Grandfather, <font size="5"><b>stevex1</b>,</font> into the party?!!)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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