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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2736254, member: 10461&quot;]Well, everyone&#039;s responses to this certainly turned it into quite the &quot;eyecandy&quot; thread, didn&#039;t they?</p><p><br /></p><p>This was not a difficult choice for me to make at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>(It has of course been posted many times before, so apologies for the rerun.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Though it&#039;s quite a small coin, this is one of my top favorites.&nbsp; Many thanks to [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] for having given me such a good deal on it a few years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Ancient Greece (Kingdom of Macedon), silver &quot;Mercenaries&quot; drachm of King Perseus, ca. 175-170 BC</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Thessaly-Pseudo-Rhodian-drachm-091100-coin-800x500.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Thessaly-Pseudo-Rhodian-drachm-091100-slab.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Obverse:</b> head of Helios, three-quarter facing right.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Reverse: </b>rose, bud right.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">2.54 g. NGC Choice Mint State (Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5), cert. #4166130-001. Ex-Colosseo Collection, March, 2014. Prior provenance to Harlan J. Berk, Ltd., Buy or Bid Sale #186, Lot 90, with description<i>&quot;Ex-Philip Davis Collection. Some iridescent toning. Choice Mint State.&quot;</i></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">A brief bit of history: <i>&quot;Although the attribution of this issue has been debated, it seems likely that it was struck by Perseus to pay Cretan mercenaries, who would have been familiar with Rhodian issues, in the Third Macedonian War against the Romans (see R. Ashton, NC 1988, pp. 29-30).&quot;</i></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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