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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3108641, member: 91461&quot;]Wonderful coin! I don&#039;t recall seeing an owl on an emptied amphora beforea. Very fun. There is a great story to go with the marriage of Cleopatra Thea and Antiochos vii... Though I don&#039;t have the time to go into all the details. She almost married her uncle (who ended up marrying her sister). Her dad kills the guy she does marry then has her marry someone else (not Antiochos, but his brother!) then he gets captured by Parthia and she marries younger brother and has a son Antiochos viii. And that&#039;s how we get this beautiful coin... I guess I did have time to go into the details.</p><p>Pretty wild to think that descendants of Alexander the great&#039;s generals were still intermingling and &quot;hooking up&quot; due to the power vacuum he left some 200 years after his death.</p><p>Anywho who (little owl pun). Speaking of, here&#039;s a little owl of mine:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]788245[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Attica, Athens. Ca 480-</p><p>460 BC. AR Obol (9mm,</p><p>0.62g). Helmeted head of</p><p>Athena right / Owl</p><p>standing right, head</p><p>facing, olive sprig behind,</p><p>AΘEto right.Kroll 13;</p><p>Svoronospl. 8,</p><p>42.Former Kairos[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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