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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2650890, member: 76194&quot;]Oops, I did it again. I never seem to learn that mixing my fat fingers with ordering or bidding on coins on my cell phone is not a good idea. I have blundered twice in the past this way...Make it three as of today.</p><p><br /></p><p>I accidentally bought this coin trying to buy a much cheaper coin...but not surprisingly, I&#039;m not upset at all. So I blew my budget for the month yet again, but it was a happy accident. Look at the coin, how can one be mad at this?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]586466[/ATTACH] Ionia, Kolophon</p><p>AR Tetartemorion.</p><p>Late 6th Century BCE.</p><p>Obverse: Laureate head of Apollo facing.</p><p>Reverse: TE monogram within incuse square.</p><p>References: SNG Cop 133; SNG Kayhan 356.</p><p>Size: 7mm, 0.25g. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s right, only 7mm and 0.25 g. But just look at the mind blowing details on this tiny Greek beauty minted on the eve of the Persian invasion of the Anatolian Greek city-states and mainland Greece.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Kolophon was not some backwater either. It was the most powerful of the cities in the Ionian League, one of the oldest military alliances in the Ancient Greek world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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