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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3193999, member: 82322&quot;]Nice coin Finn235!&nbsp; I have also never seen your obol variant with the head facing right.&nbsp; There reverse -- an eagle on a very small lion -- is very distinctive and I wish more could be learned about it.&nbsp; Here is a unique obol with the same reverse:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]825107[/ATTACH] </p><p>CILICIA, Uncertain (Tarsos?&nbsp; Mallos?). 4th century BC. AR Obol (9mm, 0.46g).</p><p>Obv: Facing gorgoneion (in the style of small Mallos bronze)</p><p>Rev: Eagle standing left on back of [lion].</p><p>Ref: Klein, <i>Nomismata 3</i> (1999) #649 (this coin).&nbsp; cf.<i> SNG France</i> 477/474 (for obv./rev.); cf. <i>SNG Levante</i> 248/230 (for obv./rev.); <b>UNIQUE</b></p><p>ex CNG, e-auction 302, May 2013, lot 164.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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