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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4908079, member: 57495&quot;]In the revelant volume of the Handbook of Greek Coinage, it suggests that she &quot;<i>opens her oracular box or conjures the spirit of Teiresias.</i>&quot;&nbsp; I wondered how they arrived at latter idea, but then came across the interesting piece below <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=207708" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=207708" rel="nofollow">sold by CNG in 2012</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1184405[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse is described as &quot;<i>Mantho standing facing, head left, holding open casket and gesturing towards the half image of her blind father Tiresias, facing right, who emerges from the underworld holding a dagger.</i>&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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