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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3720221, member: 57495"]These little oddities are fun. </p><p><br /></p><p>Like Plumbata's above, this shekel of Arados is bean-shaped. The oval shape combined with the poor centering sees portions of the top, bottom and left side of the deity's head lost. The reverse, on the other hand, is almost complete... unusual for these in that it's something you wouldn't get with a perfectly round coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]997193[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>PHOENICIA, Arados</b></p><p>AR Shekel. 10.48g, 23.8mm (15.4mm min). Circa 420-400 BC. E&E-A Group III.1.1, C13; HGC 10, 29. O: Laureate head of Ba’al-Arwad right. R: Galley right, Pataikos on prow, above waves; M A (in Aramaic) above.</p><p><br /></p><p>The little diobol of Tarentum below has an odd shape, but despite that, they managed to get the design on both sides largely on-flan. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]997204[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CALABRIA, Tarentum</b></p><p>AR Diobol. 1.0g, 11.6mm. CALABRIA, Tarentum, circa 275-212 BC. Vlasto 1460-1461; HN Italy 1068. O: Head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet, decorated with Skylla. R: Herakliskos Drakonopignon: the infant demigod Herakles strangling two snakes; ΦIN monogram to left, [LE (ligate)] in exergue.</p><p><i>Ex E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 3720221, member: 57495"]These little oddities are fun. Like Plumbata's above, this shekel of Arados is bean-shaped. The oval shape combined with the poor centering sees portions of the top, bottom and left side of the deity's head lost. The reverse, on the other hand, is almost complete... unusual for these in that it's something you wouldn't get with a perfectly round coin. [ATTACH=full]997193[/ATTACH] [B]PHOENICIA, Arados[/B] AR Shekel. 10.48g, 23.8mm (15.4mm min). Circa 420-400 BC. E&E-A Group III.1.1, C13; HGC 10, 29. O: Laureate head of Ba’al-Arwad right. R: Galley right, Pataikos on prow, above waves; M A (in Aramaic) above. The little diobol of Tarentum below has an odd shape, but despite that, they managed to get the design on both sides largely on-flan. [ATTACH=full]997204[/ATTACH] [B]CALABRIA, Tarentum[/B] AR Diobol. 1.0g, 11.6mm. CALABRIA, Tarentum, circa 275-212 BC. Vlasto 1460-1461; HN Italy 1068. O: Head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet, decorated with Skylla. R: Herakliskos Drakonopignon: the infant demigod Herakles strangling two snakes; ΦIN monogram to left, [LE (ligate)] in exergue. [I]Ex E.E. Clain-Stefanelli Collection[/I][/QUOTE]
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