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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2850995, member: 57495&quot;]Another call for your $100 coins, folks.&nbsp; A few more of mine...</p><p><br /></p><p>$92 shipped from the most recent Frank Robinson auction, this ex Huntington/ANS collection quadrans commemorating Caligula&#039;s sales tax remission... what a guy, that Caligula!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]676635[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>CALIGULA</b></p><p>AE Quadrans. 2.95g, 19.5mm. Rome mint, AD 40. RIC 52. O: C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG, S-C flanking pileus. R: PON M TR P IIII P P COS TERT, legend around large RCC.</p><p><i>Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (ANS 1001.1.15974); Jencek Auction 22 (10 June 2014), Lot 69</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>$120 for a neat and sweet Thessalian hemidrachm featuring a <i>taurokathapsia</i> (bull-leaping) scene on the obverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]676636[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>THESSALY, Pharkadon</b></p><p>AR Hemidrachm. 2.83g, 16.6mm. THESSALY, Pharkadon, circa 440-400 BC. BCD Thessaly I 1269 var. (arrangement of ethnic); BCD Thessaly II 616.2 (same rev. die); HGC 4, 292. O: Hero (Thessalos?), petasos and cloak tied at neck, holding band around head of forepart of bull right. R: Φ-Α-Ρ-Κ (retrograde), forepart of horse right within incuse square.</p><p><i>Ex BCD Collection</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Six grams of melted-down, repurposed 7th century Byzantine church silver for $99... c&#039;mon, this is literally what history is made of!</p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]676640[/ATTACH]</i></p><p><b>BYZANTINE EMPIRE. Heraclius, with Heraclius Constantine</b></p><p>AR Hexagram. 6.42g, 25mm. Constantinople mint, AD 615-638. DOC 64; Hahn MIB 140; Sear Byzantine 798. O: ∂∂ NN hЄRACLIЧ Єτ hЄRA COnS, Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine seated facing on double throne, each crowned and holding globus cruciger; cross between. R: ∂ЄЧS A∂IЧτA ROmANIS, cross potent on globe above three steps; K to right.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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