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Valued Member
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Just curious to find out what exactly this one is!It apparently weights 11.2 grams.Thanks!  
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I don't think that it is ancient.
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Valued Member
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You could be right!I have no idea since I collect thalers and large world crowns generally and this was a pure curiosity!
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CCF Advertiser
 United States
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Kind of funny how the man is actually not on the horse, but the horse is in full gallop, so the man is running as fast as a horse!
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Valued Member
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Might be Usain's Bolt grandpa!!
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
2100 Posts |
There is similar iconography from Larissa with a youth and a bull. Here is one of mine but it is nothing like the OP coin. 
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Much closer in iconography would be the 5th century BC issues from Erythrai, Ionia with a nude youth running alongside a horse.
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Moderator
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The rev looks sorta like a gecko and martini glass. 
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Moderator
 United States
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An interesting fantasy piece.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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The figure on the obverse (!?) looks very much like a rather crudely drawn skeleton -- note the lack of a mid section, exaggerated pelvis and scapulae, exposed arm joints, and the head which more resembles a skull.
Reverse looks like someone took a META wheel, cleared it out and replaced it with a lizard undergoing dissection and pinned to a dissecting tray. To its left we can see a trophy, or perhaps a basket-handled compote or wine glass with a ball inside? Maybe it's a baseball trophy for the Greek Geckos team!
Includes genuine original sand from the original sand cast mold used to cast, err, strike this amazing example of a 20th century Greek baseball commemorative sesterdrachmius.
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