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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2486324, member: 19463&quot;]Another coin opportunity for Olympic watchers would be &#039;Agonistic&#039; types:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/agon.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/agon.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/agon.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>These show prize urns and sometimes list the games which brought honor to athletes of that city.&nbsp; Easiest to find seems to be Pythian games.&nbsp; I once knew a collector deeply into these but all I have are low grade and would only encourage you to find better.</p><p>Septimius Severus,&nbsp; Perinthus, AE30 table with prizes - Legends mention Actian and Pythian games.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]525454[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Julia Domna Sardes AE29 </p><p>[ATTACH=full]525455[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Semi-autonomous Third Century AD AE25 of Macedon - Between the two urns and split into three lines is O/LYM/PIA.&nbsp; You will have a hard time finding really nice coins mentioning the Olympics any more clearly than this one.&nbsp; Post &#039;em if you got &#039;em. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]525456[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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