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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4497105, member: 57495"]Fascinating coin and type, and, of course, now on my want list. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I don't have a Tarkondimotos to show, but how about someone who fought on the other side at the Battle of Actium, and was certainly no friend of Antony's. Eurycles was a Spartan whose father had been put to death by Antony, and he commanded a ship at Actium on Octavian's side. As Antony fled, he was said to have pursued more energetically than any other, his ship drawing close enough to Antony's to yell curses at him. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2015-10-21_18-1-42-png.447317/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta)</b></p><p>AE. 5.7g, 20.3mm. C. Julius Eurycles as <i>hegemon</i>, circa 31-7 BC. RPC 1103; BMC 63. O: Head of Zeus right. R: Club; Λ-A/EΠI EY/PY-K(ΛE)/O-Σ in four lines across field; all within wreath.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 4497105, member: 57495"]Fascinating coin and type, and, of course, now on my want list. :shame: I don't have a Tarkondimotos to show, but how about someone who fought on the other side at the Battle of Actium, and was certainly no friend of Antony's. Eurycles was a Spartan whose father had been put to death by Antony, and he commanded a ship at Actium on Octavian's side. As Antony fled, he was said to have pursued more energetically than any other, his ship drawing close enough to Antony's to yell curses at him. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/upload_2015-10-21_18-1-42-png.447317/[/IMG] [B]LAKONIA, Lakedaimon (Sparta)[/B] AE. 5.7g, 20.3mm. C. Julius Eurycles as [I]hegemon[/I], circa 31-7 BC. RPC 1103; BMC 63. O: Head of Zeus right. R: Club; Λ-A/EΠI EY/PY-K(ΛE)/O-Σ in four lines across field; all within wreath.[/QUOTE]
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