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I'm ashamed to add mine to all of you guy's pretty coin's! Mine look's like the bride of Chucky! :ninja:

Found it in a basement year's ago!

But it won't be next to your's.LoL It'll be in Picasa..... ;)

 

http://picasaweb.google.com/PennyLoafer63/...037207778749826

 

Oh wow.

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Nice coins there! I am completely taken aback by the ratio of the figures Man and Lion on the one-half Lek. If that was an african lion, then the man would be about 12 to 14 feet high. A great center for any basketball team!

 

However if the man is normal at 6feet3inches average height, then the lion would be the size of a small dog! wow!

 

Whatever it is, the artwork is sufficiently lacking in all the important proportions ;)

 

Still it is an interesting thread when it gets to gold. Thank you for the coin pics and holiday cheers to all!! :ninja:

 

 

What is being portrayed is Hercules fighting the Nemean lion. Since Hercules was a demi-god maybe he would have been

12 to 14 feet high.

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These are also interesting ... go to this link, then enter "spintria" in the search box ("Suche in Auktionen") and click "Suche starten":

http://www.gmcoinart.de/index.php?area=auc...alt&AuID=93

 

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man, why would they make coins with surgical scenes on them? and that's a weird way of doing surgery...

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actually, that's pretty typical of classical greek male figures ... large penises were thought to be vulgar. times sure have changed--today we'd think he was just using steroids.

 

My understanding is that a 'blind cobbler's thumb' is large, hard & swollen! From the idea that a blind cobbler would hit his thumb quite often. Here is the Urban Dictionary's LINK

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Nikopolis ad Istrum in Moesia Inferior, Diadumenianus Caesar, issued under legate Statius Longinus, 218 AD.,

Tetrassarion / Æ 27 (25-27 mm / 12,24 g),

Obv.: K M OΠΠEΛ A[NTΩN ΔIAΔOYME]NIANOC , bare-headed bust of Diadumenian in armor with fringed paludamentum right, seen from behind.

Rev.: VΠ CTATIOV ΛO[NΓ]I-NOV NIKOΠOΛITΩN ΠP... / ..CTPON , Zeus, his body tense and nude, advancing right, hurling thunderbolt in his upraised right hand and carrying eagle on left.

Pick (AMNG I), - .

otherwise also unlisted

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