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<p>[QUOTE="Di Nomos, post: 7437645, member: 100847"]I have a tetradrachm from Skione in Macedon with a portrait of Protesilaos on it. Purported to be the first Greek to set foot at Troy and the first to die, slain by the Trojan hero Hektor. </p><p><br /></p><p>In other stories he survived and is the legendry founder of Skione. More complete copies show his name on his helmet crest. The reverse shows the stern of a ship, supposedly the ship he sailed in to the Trojan war.</p><p><br /></p><p>tetradrachm c. 480 -470 BC</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1290724[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Di Nomos, post: 7437645, member: 100847"]I have a tetradrachm from Skione in Macedon with a portrait of Protesilaos on it. Purported to be the first Greek to set foot at Troy and the first to die, slain by the Trojan hero Hektor. In other stories he survived and is the legendry founder of Skione. More complete copies show his name on his helmet crest. The reverse shows the stern of a ship, supposedly the ship he sailed in to the Trojan war. tetradrachm c. 480 -470 BC [ATTACH=full]1290724[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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