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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3288371, member: 19463&quot;]It strikes me that, if we have the 12 Caesars dictating what &#039;proper&#039; Roman collectors must own, we also should have a list of twelve Greek cities that right thinking Greek collectors feel obligated to own.&nbsp; Some should be very important&nbsp; to history and at least one should be rare and not so significant.&nbsp; I could not run what I considered a proper list of cities but had no trouble with twelve categories allowing any South Italian city to fill the Magna Graecia slot.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll start off proposing a few and ask anyone who is interested to propose additional cities.&nbsp; Coin Talk only allows ten photos per post so you can&#039;t show twelve coins all at once.&nbsp; I&#039;ll also ask we not repeat cities already posted previously in this thread.&nbsp; The idea here is not to show every coin we own or coins from rare cities that made no difference to the world fifteen minutes after they existed.&nbsp; What are the indispensable cities for a collection of Greek cities?&nbsp; Can we pick just twelve? What cities belong in THE Twelve Cities?</p><p><br /></p><p>Athens, Ar obol</p><p>[ATTACH=full]869374[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Aigina, Ar obol</p><p>[ATTACH=full]869376[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Syracuse, Ar hemilitron</p><p>[ATTACH=full]869377[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Corinth, Ar drachm</p><p>[ATTACH=full]869375[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I know I did not show tetradrachms.&nbsp; You can if your city made them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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