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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3138187, member: 56859&quot;]They appear to be modern replicas of two Greek coins.&nbsp; First is an imitation of a coin of Kaunos and second of Lucania.&nbsp; Here are examples of what they mimic:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=309734" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=309734" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=309734</a></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/big/10200509.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>CARIA, Kaunos. </b>Circa 410-390 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 11.94 g, 12h). Winged female figure in kneeling-running stance left, head right, holding kerykeion and wreath / Baetyl(?) with central pellet; (inverted Δ) Γ (K B in Carian) across upper field; all within incuse square. Konuk 106–7 var. (unlisted dies); Konuk, <i>Coin</i> M26; SNG Keckman 826. EF, find patina</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=272334" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=272334" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=272334</a></p><p><img src="https://www.cngcoins.com/photos/big/98000319.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>LUCANIA, Herakleia. </b>Circa 390-340 BC. AR Nomos (21mm, 7.94 g, 3h). Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with Skylla throwing stone held in right hand; EY to right / Herakles standing facing, torso right, strangling the Nemean Lion to right; |-HPAKΛ-EIΩN above, [AΠOΛ] and club to left, oinochoe below. Work 47 (same dies); Van Keuren 51 (same obv. die as illustration); HN Italy 1378; SNG ANS 66; SNG Lloyd –; Basel –; Bement 138 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian –; Hunterian 7 (same dies); McClean 825 (same obv. die); Weber 706 (same dies). Superb EF, toned. From artistic dies. Arguably the finest known.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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