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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8321536, member: 99456&quot;]A very nice coin [USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER] - great toning, pleasing condition and style, and an unusually wide flan (26mm!).&nbsp; @Curtismo had a <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aspendos-wrestlers-just-in-time-for-the-olympics.384576/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aspendos-wrestlers-just-in-time-for-the-olympics.384576/">nice thread</a> on these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;These staters which seemingly display only a pair of wrestling figures at first sight, in factdescribe 16 positions.&nbsp; The wrestlers sometimes hold each others’ arms, sometimes one holds the other’s arm whereas the other holds his opponent’s neck and in other instances one is trying to get a hold of the other’s waist.</i></p><p>-<a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/anatv_1013-9559_2000_act_12_1_956" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/anatv_1013-9559_2000_act_12_1_956" rel="nofollow">Tekin (2000)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Tekin&#039;s 1991 unpublished thesis is also available online (in Turkish) from Istanbul University.</p><p><br /></p><p>another small detail: the triskeles has different orientations (yours and [USER=21445]@Mat[/USER]&#039;s cool head-on-a-column are feet forward clockwise, mine feet forward counter-clockwise).&nbsp; &nbsp; This coin a little heavier than the OP but much smaller flan.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474086[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Pamphylia, Aspendos</b>, circa 380-325 BC, AR Stater (21-22mm, 10.63g, 12h)</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Two wrestlers grappling</p><p><b>Rev:</b> [E]ΣTFEΔ[IIVΣ], slinger in throwing stance right, triskeles to right, all within pelleted square border.</p><p><b>Ref: </b>SNG BNF 45</p><p><br /></p><p>Derived from &quot;Tekin&#039;s 1991 Thesis&quot; these are the 16 positions</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1474546[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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