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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;greekandromancoins, post: 2895696, member: 87990&quot;]Here is an example I owned until recently gifting it to a close friend. When attributing it I discovered it had extensive obverse die linkages with other coins sold at auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>These coins appear to me to command strong prices even in lower grades. There must be strong demand for them.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Thasos, Thrace, AR Drachm, 500-480 BC</b></p><p>Obverse: Satyr kneeling-running right, carrying off protesting or struggling nymph; Reverse: Quadripartite incuse square; Size: 15.60mm, 3.2g; Grade: gF, lightly toned, porous surfaces, die faults</p><p><br /></p><p><i>This coin most closely resembles the style of SNG Copenhagen 1015 with which it possibly shares the same obverse dies, or at least a die from the same die-engraver, facts which could be verified were the plates of this particular SNG catalogue clearer. Searches in auction archives show this coin to have extensive obverse die-linkage with other coins.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>References: SNG Copenhagen 1014-1016 (same style as 1015); CNG eAuction 230, Lot 10 (same obverse die); H.D. Rauch Summer Auction 2009, Lot 97 (same obverse die); Agora Auctions Sale 40, Lot 13 (same obverse die); Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger Auction 264, Lot 148 (same obverse die); Pegasi Numismatics Buy or Bid Sale 141, Lot 141 (same obverse die); Rosen 143; Le Rider Thasiennes 3; BMC Thrace 12; Grose 4200; SGCV I 1358; HGC 6 332</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]696443[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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