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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;red_spork, post: 2442578, member: 74282&quot;][ATTACH=full]509261[/ATTACH] </p><p>My manhole cover: Ptolemaic Kingdom. Ptolemy IV Philopator. 222-205/4 BC. Æ Drachm (39mm, 65g). Alexandria mint. Series 5. Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right / ΠΤΟΛΣΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΣΩΣ Eagle with closed wings standing left on thunderbolt; to left, filleted cornucopia; Σ control mark between legs. Svoronos 992(Ptolemy III); Weiser 61 (Ptolemy III); SNG Copenhagen 205-6; Noeske 147-9.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the things I find most interesting about them is how they are evidence for some kind of flan-lathing machine that was used to smooth the surfaces of the flan before striking. You can see the circular marks from this machine especially well on the reverse of mine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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