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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24855573, member: 26430&quot;]Nice additions!</p><p><br /></p><p>Apparently I never properly photographed or cataloged my lone Histiai Tetrobol.</p><p>Click if you dare...</p><p>[ATTACH]1593291[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But here&#039;s a little bronze from the same mint, Histiai, that&#039;s a much better specimen overall than my silver one. Same nymph on the obverse. I enjoy these bulls on the reverse, quite a popular theme in Euboia:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1593292[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Euboia, Histiai AE Chalkous</b> (?) (17mm, 1.74g, 12h), 4th-3rd BCE.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv</b>: Wreathed head of the nymph Histiaia right. Star (?) behind neck.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev</b>: Bull standing right, head facing, trophy above.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ref</b>: BCD Euboia 451</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Prov</b>: Kolner EA 7 (5 Jun 2021), 21; ex BCD Collection (Duplicates), w/ his hand-written tag, ex &quot;T/ne Coll.&quot; acq. &quot;Sept. 90, Sfr.185.—&quot;</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For the Denarius...</p><p><br /></p><p>I accidentally touched my phone screen during a Kuenker auction and was the only bid! I had absolutely no intention of bidding. Thankfully it was one of the cheapest coins in the sale, and I actually like it. (Could&#039;ve been MUCH worse!)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1593338[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>L. Procilius AR Denarius</b> (3.76 g), Rome, 80 CE.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv</b>: Laureate head of Jupiter r.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev</b>: Juno Sospita standing right w/ shield &amp; spear, snake to right (mostly off flan). </font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ref</b>: Crawford 379/1; Syd. 771</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Prov</b>: Ex <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6882950" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6882950" rel="nofollow">Kuenker e-59 (25 Mar 2020), 8212</a>, ex Niederrheinischen Privatsammlung, with collector’s holder (“Lower Rhine Collection,” Ton Nuij Coll., formed c. 1970-2010s).</font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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