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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4290378, member: 110350&quot;]One more for my Republican zoo.&nbsp; (Anyone who wants to read the saga of this gryphon&#039;s long journey from Paris to New York can find the details in the &quot;Auction Houses and Coronavirus&quot; thread.&nbsp; The journey would have been much faster had the gryphon used its own wings. But I&#039;m very happy that it&#039;s here.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic, L. Papius, AR Serrate Denarius, 79 BCE. Obv. Head of Juno Sospita right, wearing goat skin; control-symbol of lyre behind/ Rev. Gryphon prancing right, control-symbol of lyre-key below, L. PAPI in exergue. Crawford 384/1 (see also Crawford Vol. II Plate LXVII, control-symbol 127 &amp; p. 788), RSC I Papia 1, Sear RCV I 311 (ill.).&nbsp; 19 mm., 3.79 g., 9 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1092131[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Is that what a &quot;lyre-key&quot; looks like? I suppose one fits one of the openings over a peg to adjust the strings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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