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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jochen1, post: 8378734, member: 103829&quot;][USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER] Thank you for posting your coin. I have the same type in my collection. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1486967[/ATTACH] </p><p>May I add the following?</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Edith Specht&#039;s profound work &quot;Kranz, Krone oder Korb für den Sieger&quot;, in &quot;Zeitschrift für Archäologie 14/III/2000&quot;, we should call the big pumpkin shaped object not &quot;prize urn&quot; but &quot;prize basket&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>It bears the inscription ΘEMIA which stands for the Themic Games. The presiding deity of the Themic Games was the goddess Themis, the personification of law and order who was also the patroness of the Pythian Oracle in Delphi in the time before Apollo. But Themia also means a deposit, usually of money, and the Themian games were unusual in that the prize for the winners was cash, unlike other games where the typical prize was wreaths, wine or celery.</p><p><br /></p><p>Best regards</p><p>Jochen[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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