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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brassnautilus, post: 2128341, member: 74300&quot;]Hi, guys.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m newbie to the forum, but hopefully not a complete noob and the question makes some sense. </p><p><br /></p><p>Saw a coin on Ebay this past week (auction had already ended so I guess it&#039;s ok to discuss now) </p><p><br /></p><p>Seller used a kitchen scale and perhaps inaccurate. Says 0.55oz on display, which translates to just 15.7gr max. I asked him and he said coin weighted 17gr. </p><p><br /></p><p>Its reverse featured a quadriga, resembling that of roman denarius with jupiter (thunderbolt in right hand?), but style of the horses were different, and of course more detailed (horse mane), being so much larger than that on a denarius...</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen pictures of tetradrachm from sicily or syracuse with quadriga but never without flying nike figure, and the pictures often faced left instead. Also never seen any with this style of herakles on obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve gone through fake lists on forvm and forgerynetwork and there was no match for the reverse. Can&#039;t say I&#039;ve found any direct match for the herakles but there are so many... </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, it probably isn&#039;t a coin of great value, but I&#039;d like to know whether there was such style or it was just a fantasy. TBH, it has some fairly nice details and I would be surprised if anyone had spent this much efforts to create a fantasy. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i57.tinypic.com/119tcfm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://i61.tinypic.com/orhshu.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://i62.tinypic.com/akdehi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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