Anyone have some Ancients suitable for Valentines Day to post?

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  NiceCurrency Posts: 885 ✭

  January 11, 2016 1:54PM

  ah yes those issues from Thasos with the stayr running off wit the nymph
  
  
  
  I had a seleucid bronze piece some months ago with Eros, that's probably the closest I could get to the theme

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  SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 12, 2016 8:02AM

  A marriage issue tetradrachm of Alexander Balas and Cleopatra Thea (not "the" Cleopatra):
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  These are surprisingly tough to get in this earliest style as they quickly degrade in later dies into an utterly unrecognizable type.
  
  
  
  

  Learn about our world's shared history told through the first millennium of coinage: Colosseo Collection

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