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<p>[QUOTE="Silphium Addict, post: 7530303, member: 116882"]The banker's mark on the Athenian owl looks like it could be a “heart-shaped” silphium fruit like on the early coins of Kyrene</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1300139[/ATTACH]</p><p>Kyrene AR hemidrachm 2.02 gm, 12 mm</p><p>O: silphium fruit</p><p>R: head Zeus Ammon right</p><p>cf. BMC 27</p><p><br /></p><p>I remember seeing a similar banker's mark on an Aegina "turtle" stater[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Silphium Addict, post: 7530303, member: 116882"]The banker's mark on the Athenian owl looks like it could be a “heart-shaped” silphium fruit like on the early coins of Kyrene [ATTACH=full]1300139[/ATTACH] Kyrene AR hemidrachm 2.02 gm, 12 mm O: silphium fruit R: head Zeus Ammon right cf. BMC 27 I remember seeing a similar banker's mark on an Aegina "turtle" stater[/QUOTE]
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