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I need some help from you Greek experts finding a reference for this Argolis Aegos Tetrobol. It weighs 2.39g and measures 14mm:   |
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whoa.....no idea, but cool.  |
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OH WOW! Argolis thats Awesome! I was looking at a coin like that.... Gorgeous Kudos a Worth addition to your collection...of Greeks!
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 => wow ... I'm totally jealous!! (awesome wolf incuse!!) Well done my ol' friend, well done!!  |
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Very, Very cool! Great coin! |
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You know the coin is Ancient-Has A huge A-I could use that one to teach little noob his letters!
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It's the symbol under the "A" that I can't find. I think it is called a triquetra.
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jw, totally awesome coin... ..looks like the rev. A is doubled, very cool, I think we will see a lot of awesome coins from Christmas... |
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Thanks everyone for your comments. Anoob: the triskelions I have found are inverse of this one. Any explanation?
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Bing- Also in Dionysos link it is described as a Triskelion. As I am not an authority, I can only guess that the ancients had some available wiggle room when making symbols. Similar to Swastikas used on ancient Indian coins, I often see them with different orientations.
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Bing, just saw your post on Forvm. I could be wrong (not that sure after looking at both coins again), but what make me think that the obverse is a die match is that both seems to have the same die break (?) in front of the wolf. The other differences "could" be due to die wear/coin wear/strike/pics  |
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Bing, who did you buy this from (just saw BPMurphy's comment  ) ? |
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Posted 12/26/2012 11:22 am
