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Marketing tool... The seller could just be undergrading them so that when you get them in hand and find they are a lot nicer you will be "satisfied". I wouldnt
isn't the seated zeus (seen on coins) based on the 'wonder of the world' statue by phidias in the temple of zeus at olympia? i think that was late 5th C. BC.,
I recently won the following coin at Vauctions: http://www.tantaluscoins.com/coins/35958.php I couldn't help but notice the similarity between the portrayal of