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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 4515831, member: 98035&quot;]Really nice pickup!</p><p><br /></p><p>These are fun because:</p><p>1) Who doesn&#039;t like archaic wads of silver with intriguing designs?</p><p>2) These were considered extremely rare until a couple years ago when a hoard of (thousands?) was found and dumped on the market - now most pieces trade at about $100-125 with only truly exceptional pieces going over that</p><p>3) There are many interesting varieties within this series - With and without lions, with and without field marks, with various spelling styles (or lack thereof)</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought a lot of 10 of them last summer from CNG and picked this one out for my personal collection:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1118911[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I just really liked the details in the shield and the detailed musculature of the legs in the triskeles!</p><p><br /></p><p>I also have the more common wrestlers type </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1118919[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And just in case ancients weren&#039;t cool enough, here is an unassuming and tiny (9mm) bronze from Aspendos from the second century BC, featuring a shield (inscribed <b>Πo</b>) and triskeles</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1118921[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Except that it came mixed in with a bunch of post-Roman Vandal coins dating to the Byzantine conquest of Carthage, more than 600 years after it was struck! This reinforces that its important not only to study the coins themselves, but also the history and archeological contexts that tell us who used them, where, and for how long.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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