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<p>[QUOTE="Meander, post: 6318637, member: 81943"]That is a wonderful little crab [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER]. Nicely centred and excellently preserved. Congrats! I'd love to own such coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime I must be happy (and I am) with a Herakles tetradrachm and didrachm. Here they are:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1250355[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>ISLANDS off CARIA, Kos. </b>Circa 280-250 BC. AR Tetradrachm. Leodamas, magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Crab; KΩION above; below, ΛEOΔAMAΣ above bow-in-bowcase; all within dotted square. Requier Group III, 49a (this coin)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1250356[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>ISLANDS off CARIA, Kos. </b>Circa 345-340 BC. AR Didrachm. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Veiled head of Demeter left, ΦIΛO behind. Pixodarus p. 232, 22 (A3/P12).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Meander, post: 6318637, member: 81943"]That is a wonderful little crab [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER]. Nicely centred and excellently preserved. Congrats! I'd love to own such coin. In the meantime I must be happy (and I am) with a Herakles tetradrachm and didrachm. Here they are: [ATTACH=full]1250355[/ATTACH] [B]ISLANDS off CARIA, Kos. [/B]Circa 280-250 BC. AR Tetradrachm. Leodamas, magistrate. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Crab; KΩION above; below, ΛEOΔAMAΣ above bow-in-bowcase; all within dotted square. Requier Group III, 49a (this coin) [ATTACH=full]1250356[/ATTACH] [B]ISLANDS off CARIA, Kos. [/B]Circa 345-340 BC. AR Didrachm. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Veiled head of Demeter left, ΦIΛO behind. Pixodarus p. 232, 22 (A3/P12).[/QUOTE]
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