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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2723389, member: 42773"]If you were to call any Sicilian coins common, it would be these Hieron II issues with the bust of Poseidon on the obverse and his trident on the reverse. If you can get one that's well-struck and reasonably clean, the trident detail is fabulous, with curlicue patterns between the prongs (to symbolize water I assume?) and dolphins swimming on either side. A really nice example, like this one, shows the king's name fully spelled out under the trident...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]617530[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2723389, member: 42773"]If you were to call any Sicilian coins common, it would be these Hieron II issues with the bust of Poseidon on the obverse and his trident on the reverse. If you can get one that's well-struck and reasonably clean, the trident detail is fabulous, with curlicue patterns between the prongs (to symbolize water I assume?) and dolphins swimming on either side. A really nice example, like this one, shows the king's name fully spelled out under the trident... [ATTACH=full]617530[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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