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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2560449, member: 57495&quot;]I mentioned in some other threads that my Numismatik Naumann win from sale 44 (closed 7 August) had finally received Austrian antiquities authority export approval and been shipped... this is it.&nbsp; It&#039;s a drachm struck during the same time period as the OP coin, a hemidrachm (or 1/2 victoriatus).&nbsp; Fairly scarce in itself, it very much resembles earlier Illyrian drachms we commonly see with the cow and suckling calf obverse and stellate pattern reverse.&nbsp; The difference is in the inclusion of the distinctive motifs of the Nymphaeum fires and the symbol of the lagobolon within the linear border on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]551741[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>ILLYRIA, Apollonia</b></p><p>AR Drachm. 3.0g, 17.8mm. Circa 120/00-80/70 BC. Aibatios and Chairenos, magistrates. Maier 120; SNG Cop 398. O: AIBATIOΣ, cow standing left, suckling calf standing right below; in exergue, grain ear. R: ΑΠΟΛ / XAIPHNOΣ, Fires of the Nymphaeum and lagobolon (rabbit-bashing stick) within double linear frame.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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