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<p>[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8211999, member: 118780"]Funny, I've celebrated this for some time on the nature forums, and I never realized it also applies here. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440924[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Sophytes, 'Athenian Series' AR Tetradrachm</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">Uncertain mint, circa 323-240 BCE</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">16.48g, 21mm, 1h.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Attic standard. Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette and grape bunch on the bowl / Owl standing to right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind, AΘE before; all within incuse square</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Cf. Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; cf. Roma XIV, 341 corr. (grape bunch on rev.)</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Roma</p><p></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440925[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">ATTICA, Athens</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">AR Tetradrachm 22.5mm, 17.18g, 1h</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Circa 454-404 BCE</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex CNG inventory June 2004</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex CNG January 2021</p><p></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440926[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Kings of Thrace. Agathokles, son of Lysimachos</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">circa 290s-283/2 BCE Adramyteion</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">AE Bronze, 13 mm, 1.90 g, 11 h</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. AΓA-ΘO Double-bodied owl standing facing.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">HGC 3 -. Terin Series 7, 8</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Leu</p><p></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440927[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Egypt, Achaemenid Province. Sabakes, satrap, AR Tetradrachm. Circa 340-333 BC.</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">16.61g, 25mm, 9h.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing to right with head facing, olive sprig with berry and crescent in upper left field; uncertain letters to left, "Sabakes symbol" and SWYK (in Aramaic) to right.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Van Alfen Type III, 24-34 var. (O11/R- [unlisted rev. die]); Nicolet-Pierre, Monnaies 18-26 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 4 var. (no letters on left of rev.); BMC 265 var. (same).</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Roma</p><p></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>And, of course, the non-silvery kind.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440930[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 8211999, member: 118780"]Funny, I've celebrated this for some time on the nature forums, and I never realized it also applies here. :) [ATTACH=full]1440924[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Sophytes, 'Athenian Series' AR Tetradrachm[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4][CENTER]Uncertain mint, circa 323-240 BCE 16.48g, 21mm, 1h. Attic standard. Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette and grape bunch on the bowl / Owl standing to right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind, AΘE before; all within incuse square Cf. Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; cf. Roma XIV, 341 corr. (grape bunch on rev.) Ex 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group Ex Roma[/CENTER][/SIZE][/FONT] [ATTACH=full]1440925[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]ATTICA, Athens[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4][CENTER]AR Tetradrachm 22.5mm, 17.18g, 1h Circa 454-404 BCE Kroll 8; HGC 4, 1597 Ex CNG inventory June 2004 Ex CNG January 2021[/CENTER][/SIZE][/FONT] [ATTACH=full]1440926[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Kings of Thrace. Agathokles, son of Lysimachos[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4][CENTER]circa 290s-283/2 BCE Adramyteion AE Bronze, 13 mm, 1.90 g, 11 h Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. AΓA-ΘO Double-bodied owl standing facing. HGC 3 -. Terin Series 7, 8 Ex Leu[/CENTER][/SIZE][/FONT] [ATTACH=full]1440927[/ATTACH] [CENTER][FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4]Egypt, Achaemenid Province. Sabakes, satrap, AR Tetradrachm. Circa 340-333 BC.[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [FONT=Book Antiqua][SIZE=4][CENTER]16.61g, 25mm, 9h. Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing to right with head facing, olive sprig with berry and crescent in upper left field; uncertain letters to left, "Sabakes symbol" and SWYK (in Aramaic) to right. Van Alfen Type III, 24-34 var. (O11/R- [unlisted rev. die]); Nicolet-Pierre, Monnaies 18-26 (same obv. die); SNG Copenhagen 4 var. (no letters on left of rev.); BMC 265 var. (same). Ex Roma[/CENTER][/SIZE][/FONT] And, of course, the non-silvery kind. [ATTACH=full]1440930[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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