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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;pprp, post: 3965919, member: 94602&quot;]This was quite a productive year, with several nice coins at fair prices. Here is my top 3 in no particular order.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wishing a happy numismatic 2020 to all!</p><p><br /></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Thrace, Maroneia.</b> Circa 436/5-411/0 BC. Stater (silver 14.23 g, 27 mm). Magistrate Posideios. Free horse springing to left; above, Corinthian helmet to left; below ΜΑΡΩΝ Rev. ΠΟΣΙΔΗΙΟΣ Grape vine with four bunches of grapes and four leaves. Schönert-Geiss <i>Die Münzprägung von Maroneia (1987)</i> no.151.1 (this coin), Babelon <i>Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines (1932) </i>II/4, 1459 Taf. 341, 4 (this coin), Allen B. West <i>Fifth and fourth century gold coins from the Thracian coast (1929)</i> no.21a (this coin). Very rare, one of two known. Toned and struck on a broad flan. Very fine.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>ex-Bank Leu Auction 15, lot 162, 4-5 May 1976;<i> ex-Collection De Nanteuil, lot 715, Auction Florange-Ciani, Paris 1925</i></i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1044061[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>MACEDON, Akanthos. </b>Circa 500-480 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.01 g). Attic standard. Leopard left, attacking bull crouching right; floral ornament in exergue / Quadripartite incuse square. Desneux 21. Near EF, very rare, possibly the second known, the other in Boston MFA.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1044062[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. </b>Circa 425-420 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.65 g, 2h). Facing lion&#039;s head / Iokastos (or Aristaios?) seated left, holding scepter; grape bunch on vine to right; all within laurel wreath. Herzfelder 61 (D35/R50); HN Italy 2491; SNG Lloyd 685 (same dies); SNG München 1578 (same dies); Winterthur 529 = Pozzi 324 (same dies); de Luynes 789 (same dies). VF.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>ex Baron Friedrich von Schennis Collection (J. Hirsch XXXIII, 17 November 1913), lot 262; F. Martinetti Collection; G. Nervegna Collection (Sambon-Canessa, 18 November 1907), lot 627. </i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1044063[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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