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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 2984809, member: 82322&quot;]Barry Murphy calls the thing a &quot;ladle(?)&quot;.&nbsp; See <a href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/chersonese/page1.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/chersonese/page1.htm" rel="nofollow">http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/chersonese/page1.htm</a> for examples and references.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think this is a genuine coin or a Celtic contemporary imitation.&nbsp; It is double struck. I suspect the second blow wasn&#039;t that hard and the lion&#039;s face survived by being where the body was.&nbsp; Or perhaps where a die break was.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am more concerned with the wreath-looking thing on the obverse at 9 o&#039;clock.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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