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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2811053, member: 82322&quot;]I also have a Lindgren plate coin.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think I have ever shown it to anyone.&nbsp; It started weeping light green powder in 2003 but I believe I was able to arrest that problem.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]657770[/ATTACH]</p><p>Sicily, Kamarina, 413-405 BC, AE16 trias</p><p>Obverse: Gorgon</p><p>Reverse: KAMA; Owl</p><p>Lindgren <i>Europe</i> #429 (this coin)</p><p>ex-H. C. Lindgren, list 77, November 2002, lot 36</p><p><br /></p><p>I admire your Boeotian shield.&nbsp; I have half a shield:</p><p>[ATTACH]657771[/ATTACH]</p><p>BOIOTIA, Thebes. 525-480 BC. AR hemiobol (0.53 g).</p><p>Obv: Half Boiotian shield</p><p>Rev: Square incuse with a recessed large triangle (divided by a line), a small triangle, and a square (divided by a line).</p><p>Ref: BMC p. 33, 13.</p><p>Classical Numismatic Group, Triton IX, January 2006, lot 326 (BCD collection).&nbsp; Ex Dr. J.S. Wilkinson Collection (Malter 49, 15 November 1992), lot 422.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably the half-shield was used as the obverse to help the consumer distinguish between the obol (which featured a full shield) and this coin.&nbsp; There was also a rare 3/2 obol in BCD&#039;s collection with three half shields.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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