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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4704369, member: 99456&quot;]Thanks, [USER=96635]@Pavlos[/USER] - an interesting and enjoyable write-up and coins.&nbsp; That Herakles portrait is wonderful.&nbsp; I had not heard the story of &quot;Cleopatra VII&quot; features in Artemis - here&#039;s a painting and a bust to compare:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1154997[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Cleopatra#/media/File:Retrato_femenino_(26771127162).jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Cleopatra#/media/File:Retrato_femenino_(26771127162).jpg" rel="nofollow">Public Domain</a>: 1st Century AD, Posthumous portrait of Cleopatra VII from Herculaneum</font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1155010[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="2">Image from : &quot;<a href="https://archive.org/details/lifetimesofcleop00weig/page/n11/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/lifetimesofcleop00weig/page/n11/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">Life and times of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt</a>&quot;, Weigall, Arthur (1914), G.P. Putnam, NY</font></p><p><br /></p><p>Entertaining to note how that appears to have affected the price of the coin in <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=103357" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=103357" rel="nofollow">this CNG sale</a>.&nbsp; I paid &lt;1/20th of the CNG hammer price for this coin- perhaps it was not all coins of this type?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1154996[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>King Amyntas of Galatia</b>, 36-25 BC, AE, Uncertain mint in Galatia, Pisidia or Lykaonia</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Draped bust of Artemis right, with bow and quiver over shoulder.</p><p><b>Rev: </b>BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ / AMYNTOY, stag standing right.</p><p><b>Size: </b>5.40g, 18mm</p><p><b>Ref:</b> RPC I <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3503" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3503" rel="nofollow">3503</a></p><p><br /></p><p>On Dellius and Amyntas switching sides to Octavian and Amyntas taking 2000 Galatian cavalry with him: the <a href="https://archive.org/details/lifetimesofcleop00weig/page/n393/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/lifetimesofcleop00weig/page/n393/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">book</a> referenced above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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