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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 8211451, member: 91461&quot;]Thanks my man.</p><p>But your freaking Perseus with his HP monogram and what appears to be a gnarly mace head is, is...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440729[/ATTACH]</p><p>My favorite bronze Perseus... might be</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440730[/ATTACH]</p><p>ThessalianLeague, Thessaly,Greece, c. 170 B.C. GB84862. Bronze chalkous, Warren, &quot;Two Notes,&quot; NC 1961, pl. I, 11; BCD Thessaly II 24.2; HGC 4 236; Rogers 4 var., VF, dark green patina, cleaning scratches, earthen deposits, Demetrias(?) mint, weight 2.535g, maximum diameter 14.7mm, c. 170 B.C.; obverse Macedonian shield with star in central boss; reverse kestrosphendone (dart sling) with dart inside, ΘEΣΣA/ΛΩN divided in two lines, the first above, ending below; ex John Jencek;</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The object on the reverse was long considered somewhat mysterious. Roger identified it as a lyre. Robinson suggested a diadem or more probably a sling. Warren argued it is a stylized depiction of a dart sling, or Kestrosphendone, a weapon first introduced during the Third Macedonian War between Rome and Perseus of Macedon. Warren suggests this type was struck at Demetrias, under orders from Perseus, to commemorate the success of the weapon.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;At the end of the Third Macedonian War (171 - 168 B.C.), King Perseus of Macedonia was decisively defeated by Rome at the Battle of Pydna. He surrendered to general Lucius Aemilius Paullus and was imprisoned in Rome with his half-brother Philippus and his son Alexander. Around 300,000 Macedonians were enslaved. The Antigonid kingdom was replaced with four republics, which were later dissolved and became the Roman province of Macedonia.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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