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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ryro, post: 3508347, member: 91461&quot;]Whaho ho! @algegandron breaking out da big guns with the daric. BEA utiful!</p><p>And cool coin [USER=100731]@Roerbakmix[/USER]!</p><p>Thanks so much for posting that data and article [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER]&nbsp; and [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER].</p><p>Admittedly it is disappointing for me to read. But the data posted certainly suggests that these were NOT made for nor by the Achaemenid kings.</p><p>&quot;433 Sigloi out of about 15,000 Sigloi with testified find-spots found in parts of the Achaemenid empire with coin use outside the satrapy of Lydia.&quot;</p><p>If true, seems pretty damning evidence to what I&#039;ve been led to believe.</p><p>Nothing like those poor folks who bought bronze &quot;Egyptian&quot; coins of Ebz 2...that turned out to more likely be some podunk place in Persia.</p><p>But still, disappointing. As I&#039;ve always imagined these to be the coins of the invincible armies that gave the Greeks such Hell and went to battle, and lost, with ATG.</p><p>Anyway, here&#039;s some funny Achaemenid/Lydian(?) coins that I have acquired:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]930427[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]930428[/ATTACH]</p><p>???(To be continued)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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