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Message:: <p>[QUOTE="stevex6, post: 1853543, member: 44183"]<font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff">This 2nd offering is one of my all-time favourite coins ... </span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"> </span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: #ff0000"><b>Sicily, Syracuse: Agathokles Æ24</b></span></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: #000000">317-289 BC</span></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: #000000">Diameter: 23.9mm</span></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: #000000">Weight: 9.26gm</span></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: #000000">Obverse: Diademed head of the young Herakles left, ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙΩΝ before </span></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: #000000">Reverse: The Nemean lion striding right, club above, ΣΩ in exergue</span></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: #000000">Reference: Calciati II, p290, 150, R1 7; c.f. SNG ANS 733ff</span></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: #000000">Other: superior portrait with sculpted features usually represented by simpler forms</span></span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"> </span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]310057[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]310058[/ATTACH]</span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"> </span></font></p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="4"><span style="color: #0000ff">[ATTACH=full]310060[/ATTACH] </span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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