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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 6604754, member: 57495"]Since this thread was posted, I've unsuccessfully bid on two of these Themistokles fractions, including the most recent one in <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7853106" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7853106" rel="nofollow">Leu</a>, a Leukippos type with a very off-center obverse that nevertheless went for CHF 550 before fees. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So, while I don't have a coin issued by Themistokles to add here, thanks to a surprise find in a group lot that arrived this week, I do have something relevant to share, a Roman provincial of Athens that supposedly depicts Themistokles on its reverse. It's pretty worn, and a flan flaw obscures part of the figure, but I do still think it's a neat addition to the ol' collection. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1266501[/ATTACH]<b>ATHENS, Attica</b></p><p>AE23. 8.93g, 23.5mm. ATTICA, Athens, circa AD 140s/150s – 175. RPC IV.1 temp 3465; SNG Cop 345. O: Head of Athena right. R: ΑΘΗ[ΝΑΙΩΝ], Themistokles standing on galley right, wearing military dress, holding trophy and wreath; on prow, owl. </p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike the provincial of Magnesia ad Maeandrum shown in the OP that explicitly names Themistokles, this one doesn't, but the provincial coins of Athens do seem to have featured a few heroically posed figures that in all likelihood celebrated its famous sons of centuries past. The hero standing on a galley with a trophy and wreath clearly alludes to a great naval victory, the most legendary of which was Themistokles' at the Battle of Salamis.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 6604754, member: 57495"]Since this thread was posted, I've unsuccessfully bid on two of these Themistokles fractions, including the most recent one in [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7853106']Leu[/URL], a Leukippos type with a very off-center obverse that nevertheless went for CHF 550 before fees. :wideyed: So, while I don't have a coin issued by Themistokles to add here, thanks to a surprise find in a group lot that arrived this week, I do have something relevant to share, a Roman provincial of Athens that supposedly depicts Themistokles on its reverse. It's pretty worn, and a flan flaw obscures part of the figure, but I do still think it's a neat addition to the ol' collection. :) [ATTACH=full]1266501[/ATTACH][B]ATHENS, Attica[/B] AE23. 8.93g, 23.5mm. ATTICA, Athens, circa AD 140s/150s – 175. RPC IV.1 temp 3465; SNG Cop 345. O: Head of Athena right. R: ΑΘΗ[ΝΑΙΩΝ], Themistokles standing on galley right, wearing military dress, holding trophy and wreath; on prow, owl. Unlike the provincial of Magnesia ad Maeandrum shown in the OP that explicitly names Themistokles, this one doesn't, but the provincial coins of Athens do seem to have featured a few heroically posed figures that in all likelihood celebrated its famous sons of centuries past. The hero standing on a galley with a trophy and wreath clearly alludes to a great naval victory, the most legendary of which was Themistokles' at the Battle of Salamis.[/QUOTE]
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