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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3813607, member: 82322&quot;]I consider a cheap mystery coin to be the best possible outcome.&nbsp; Why spend $5k so the inside of my safety deposit box can enjoy an aureus from known dies?</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is one I have been enjoying for over a year.&nbsp; I posted this before, and don&#039;t expect answers.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1016473[/ATTACH]</p><p>Unknown. 29mm, 13.85g</p><p>Obv: uncertain inscription ????ΓΙΟ - ???Ο?MA????? ; Bust right (Maximinus?)</p><p>Rev: ...Π ΟΛƐΙΤωΝ; Nude Man (Herakes?) standing left, club (?) in right hand, left hand raised (holding scepter?)</p><p>Countermark: Є (Epsilon) in circle (mark of value 5?). Howgego 802; cf Howgego 803-806.</p><p><br /></p><p>I thought of this guy because your guy is also nude.&nbsp; Most mythical figures are clothed on coins. Only a few go nude: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4798417" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4798417" rel="nofollow">Dionysos</a>, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=299813" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=299813" rel="nofollow">Zeus</a>, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=175640" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=175640" rel="nofollow">Apollo</a>, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=533870" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=533870" rel="nofollow">Poseidon</a>, <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1943579" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1943579" rel="nofollow">“Athlete”</a>, and <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4033444" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4033444" rel="nofollow">Perseus</a>, Harpocrates, Marsyas. If the figure is holding a club it is Herakles but I am only 90% sure I see a club. I found depictions of Apollo with his arm in my pose but never nude -- he is always in a short cloak (&#039;chalmys&#039;).</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, inscription probably means this comes from a city whose name ends in &quot;...polis&quot;. Which means a lot of cities!&nbsp; I don&#039;t want to derail the discussion of your coin by talking about mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>On yours I thought I saw two ribbons coming off the body to the left.&nbsp; You suggest &quot;chalmys&quot;, which is different than nude.</p><p><br /></p><p>ISEGRIM doesn&#039;t include Europe or Syria so it may not be of help, FYI.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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