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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stevex6, post: 2509768, member: 44183&quot;]<span style="color: #0000ff">Again =&gt; red_spork, I am totally jealous of your new cool over-strike addition!!</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/cr69-6combined-jpg.533024/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Ummm, hopefully I&#039;m allowed to strut a couple of my favourite over-strikes from around this same era?</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">BOEOTIA, Federal Coinage (Overstrike), Æ18</span></b></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Circa 220s BC</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 17.5 mm</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 5.11 grams</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Head of Demeter or Kore (Persephone) three-quarter face right, wearing corn-wreath</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: Poseidon, naked, standing left, resting right foot on rock and leaning on trident; to right, ΒΟΙΩΤ[ΩΝ] downward</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reference: BCD Boiotia 108 (this coin); HGC 4, 1182. VF, dark brown patina. <b>Overstruck on Æ of Antigonos Gonatas</b> of the type SNG Cop. 1214-1221</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Other: 12h … the overstrikes are reversed on this coin, which is quite rare</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Ex BCD Collection (Triton IX, 10 January 2006), lot 108</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><b>=&gt; I love the horse wrapped around Kore&#039;s face!!</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]533572[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #ff0000">Anonymous. Overstruck Æ Triens </span></b></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Canusium mint</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">206-195 BC</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 20 mm</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 5.88 grams</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Helmeted head of Minerva right; four pellets above</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: Prow right; [CA] to right, four pellets below</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Reference: Crawford 100/3; Sydenham 309c; RBW 450</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">Other: 12h … VF, brown patina.</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><b>Overstruck on a “Zeus/man-headed bull” issue of Oiniadai, Akarnania</b> (cf. BCD Akarnania 345-8)</span></p><p><span style="color: #000000">From the RBW Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (20 August 1986), lot 117</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]533571[/ATTACH] </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... yah, these coin-types are amazingly cool, eh? </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">=&gt; congrats for a third time, red_spork (I love your new coin)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">... it would look lovely in my collection (I&#039;m just sayin&#039;)</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><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" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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