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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 3754646, member: 96635&quot;]Great post [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]! and awesome coins. Pyrrhos is my number 1 general, so I think it is safe to say we are both Pyrrhos fanboys!</p><p>I always wonder if I got a tiny bit of blood from Pyrrhos in me, I am myself from Molossoi in Epirus <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/9cd0twE.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Syracuse, Sicily - Pyrrhos AR Oktobol (278–276 B.C.). ‘old collection’ toning.</b></p><p><b><b>Obverse:</b> </b>Head of Persephone to left, wearing wreath of grain leaves and pendant earrings; poppy seed/flower behind.</p><p><b><b>Reverse:</b></b> ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ – ΠΥΡΡΟΥ; Athena Alkidemos advancing left, brandishing spear with her right hand and holding shield aloft in her left.</p><p><b>Reference: </b>SNG ANS 828-829. SNG Copenhagen 93-94.</p><p>5.20g; 20mm</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/atn2yY2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Syracuse, Sicily - Pyrrhos AE (278–276 B.C.)</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Helmeted head of Athena left; owl behind.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠYPPOY. Grain ear within oak wreath.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> SNG ANS 842.</p><p>5.35g; 19mm</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/5UpjH60.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Ambrakia, Epeiros - Pyrrhos AE (297–272 B.C.)</b></p><p><b><b>Obverse:</b> </b>Laureate head of Zeus Dodonaeus left.</p><p><b><b>Reverse:</b> </b>Thunderbolt; above: B, below: ΠYP monogram; all within oak wreath.</p><p><b>Reference: </b>SNG Cop. 102; BMC 44; HGC 3,1 271.</p><p>5.39g; 19mm[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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