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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 6386369, member: 83845"]Very cool coin. Indeed the Athenians seem to have developed ostracizer's remorse fairly soon after his death. His children all had their citizenship restored and many of them returned to Athens. There was even a legend by the time of Thucydides (who was born around the time Themistokles died) that the body of Themistokles was secretly smuggled into Attica to be buried in the homeland.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed I remember that she won that nice coin of yours at auction. It's a very nice example and a veteran of epic battles <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! Hopefully she will find the time to drop in and post more often soon. Her presence is much missed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would say the same thing of you as well, my friend. Though I have noticed that you have been posting a bit more frequently over the last few weeks! Hopefully a sign of things to come as I have barely seen any of your new additions over the last year!</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the Themistokles type set, I agree that the owl is likely out of reach. The Zeus might be possible though! I got my coin from a sale of the Plankenhorn Collection of Ionian Coins which seemed to have been rather extensive and even it only had three of the types (Hephaestus, Zeus & grain). Leukippos and the owl seem to be the rare ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 6386369, member: 83845"]Very cool coin. Indeed the Athenians seem to have developed ostracizer's remorse fairly soon after his death. His children all had their citizenship restored and many of them returned to Athens. There was even a legend by the time of Thucydides (who was born around the time Themistokles died) that the body of Themistokles was secretly smuggled into Attica to be buried in the homeland. Indeed I remember that she won that nice coin of yours at auction. It's a very nice example and a veteran of epic battles ;)! Hopefully she will find the time to drop in and post more often soon. Her presence is much missed. I would say the same thing of you as well, my friend. Though I have noticed that you have been posting a bit more frequently over the last few weeks! Hopefully a sign of things to come as I have barely seen any of your new additions over the last year! As to the Themistokles type set, I agree that the owl is likely out of reach. The Zeus might be possible though! I got my coin from a sale of the Plankenhorn Collection of Ionian Coins which seemed to have been rather extensive and even it only had three of the types (Hephaestus, Zeus & grain). Leukippos and the owl seem to be the rare ones.[/QUOTE]
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