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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iamtiberius, post: 3381774, member: 37707&quot;]My nicest depiction of an Amazon:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/cilicia-soloi-stater-80-jpg.649975/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>CILICIA. <i>Soloi</i>. Circa 440-410 BC. Stater</b></p><p>Amazon, nude to the waist, kneeling left and stringing her bow; wearing bonnet and with her gorytos at her hip; to right, facing head of satyr. <i>Rev.</i> ΣΟΛΕΩΝ Bunch of grapes; to right, fly; all within incuse square. Casabonne Type 2. SNG Levante 40. SNG Paris 128</p><p>10.71g</p><p>22.1mm</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>&quot;The Amazons were a tribe of female warriors who supposedly originated in northern Asia Minor. They appear in a great number of Greek legends and were a favorite subject for ancient painting and sculpture (they supposedly removed their right breasts in order to be better able to throw javelins and draw their bows, but this is never shown in works of art and it seems prima facie unlikely). The engraver of this coin got out of the problem by showing the Amazon from behind, with only her left breast visible under her arm. Precisely why she appears on the coinage of Soloi is unknown and probably relates to a local myth.&quot;</b></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Source, Amazon subjective desc: <a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=138679" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=138679" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=138679</a></p><p><br /></p><p>- Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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