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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 1854288, member: 56859&quot;]One of my 3rd century BC favorites.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had a thing for Pan ever since reading <i>Jitterbug Perfume</i> by Tom Robbins.&nbsp; Robbins has probably licked a few too many Bufo toads in his lifetime but his mind is a fascinating and fun place.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]310394[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>KINGS of MACEDON, Antigonos II Gonatas</b></p><p>277/6-239 BC, struck after 270 BC</p><p>AR Tetradrachm</p><p>31mm, 17.06 g</p><p>Amphipolis mint</p><p>Obv: head of Pan in center of Macedonian shield, lagobolon over shoulder; shield decorated with stars within crescents</p><p>Rev: BASILEWS ANTIGONOU, Athena Alkidemos walking left, brandishing thunderbolt and shield; helmet left, EMP monogram right</p><p>Ref:&nbsp; SNGCop 1200v, EMP ?</p><p>R. Martin, &quot;A Third-Century B.C. Hoard from Thessaly at the ANS,&quot; ANSMN 26, 536 (same obv. die).</p><p><i>ex Demetrios Armounta Collection</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41a6cmXNKhL._SY344_PJlook-inside-v2,TopRight,1,0_SH20_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Review snippets from Amazon:</i></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<b>Jitterbug Perfume</b> has a large and exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interested in immortality and/or perfume... Go see for yourself; you&#039;ll have a good time.&quot;—<i>Washington Post</i></p><p><br /></p><p>“Robbins again celebrates the joy of individual expression and self-reliance. He lays before us the time honored warts and hairs of the world’s philosophies—problems with religion, war, politics, family, marriage and sex—and leaves no twist or turn unstoned. —<i>Saturday Review</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><font size="4"><b>From the Publisher</b></font></i></p><p><i>&quot;<i>Jitterbug Perfume</i> is an epic. which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn&#039;t conclude until nine o&#039;clock tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle is actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon becaused it is leaking and there is only a drop of two left.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;<i>Jitterbug Perfume</i> has a large and exotic cast of characters, all of whom are interested in immortality and/or perfume... Go see for yourself; you&#039;ll have a good time.&quot;--<i>The Washington Post</i></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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