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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 8102035, member: 91461&quot;]There are a few things wrong with it and you better just give it to a close CT buddy<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> First, you got it for too good of a deal. B - it would fit in my collection so nicely. And 3rd, the eagles wing going off the border is just bad ace! Like when movies break the 4th wall with a wink and a nod to the audience...or should I say, a <i>wing and a dog</i>???</p><p>I don&#039;t have the type so will share a coin that I bought at the same auction and also got a great deal on, with some incredibly intriguing figures behind it and some debate. For the record I believe David Sear is correct:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1408871[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Antigonos I Monophthalmos Æ16. Struck under Demetrios I Poliorketes (could be Philip III Arrhidaios) </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Salamis, 306/5-301 BC. Macedonian shield, boss decorated with facing gorgoneion / Macedonian helmet; B-A across upper fields, kerykeion to lower left, monogram to lower right. Price 3159 (c. 323-315 BC); Zapiti &amp; Michaelidou 7-8. 4.4g, 16mm, 12h. Very Fine. Purchased from Savoca December 2021</p><p>In the work of Martin Price, this type of bronze is dated between 323 and 315 BC, struck in Cyprus. If so, this bronze could have been struck by Philip III, Antigone the One-eyed or Demetrius Poliorketes. For David Sear, this coin would have been struck in Macedonia during the interregnum between Demetrius Poliorketes and Antigonus Gonatas.</p><p>History: Philip III, son of Philip II and the half-brother of Alexandre, was not fully sane. At the death of the conqueror and before the lack of power, in order to maintain the fiction of the unity of the Empire, he was proclaimed king, but in fact he had no power. He was assassinated at the instigation of Olympias, Alexander&#039;s mother, in 316 BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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