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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2024804, member: 56859&quot;]Using random.org&#039;s generator with 101 coins (just the ones posted to my website; I&#039;m not as organized as most of you!), here&#039;s my random coin.&nbsp; #4.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/ae43f8_b951978245b64425a71013018a99516d.jpg_srz_p_850_436_85_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Sicily, Syracuse.&nbsp; Dionysos I</b></p><p><b>390 BCE</b></p><p>Æ tetras, 14 mm, 1.8 gm</p><p>Obv:&nbsp; head of nymph facing slightly left, wearing necklace</p><p>Rev:&nbsp; octopus</p><p>Ref: CNS 29; SNG ANS 385</p><p><br /></p><p>I wanted a nice octopus.&nbsp; While this coin has its faults, it&#039;s actually not a bad example.&nbsp; The nymph&#039;s portrait is charming.&nbsp; I&#039;d also like to get a bronze or silver coin showing the octopus with it&#039;s two &quot;front&quot; tentacles intertwined.&nbsp; For some reason that is amusing.</p><p><br /></p><p>CoinTalk has been slow.&nbsp; I haven&#039;t been as active lately due to work and other time-consuming events but I do have many new coins to share and eight more on their way.&nbsp; Of those eight, one is lost (the Doson tetradrachm), another disappeared in Customs but will hopefully arrive within another month, and six were not shipped in a timely manner.&nbsp; I doubt I&#039;ll see any of those eight within the next two weeks. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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