NewStyle: Dioscuri

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  1. NewStyleKing

    NewStyleKing Beware of Greeks bearing wreaths

    In the silver NewStyle there are three representations of these two and I have all three! Two are represented by their caps with stars above and one by a representation of the twins standing in for the brothers who are the first and second magistrate of this coinage.
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    Athens New Style tetradrachm c 154/3 BC

    Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
    34.5mm 16.72g Thompson issue 11
    Thompson catalogue : Obs 60 : Rev (not in plates)/ NEW?
    Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic
    Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora
    2 complex magistrates monograms in both fields
    RF symbol : Caps of Dioscuri
    All within a surrounding olive wreath

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    Athens New Style tetradrachm c 123/2 BC

    Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
    16.23g 30mm Thompson issue (new) 42
    Thompson catalogue: 479g
    REV : ΑΘΕ ethnic
    Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora
    on which month mark Δ control ΣΦ below
    3 magistrates : MIKION EURYKLEI BOYKATTHES
    RF symbol : Dioscuri
    All surrounded by an olive wreath

    This is typical coin from the "over-represented" group of 4 coins as found in Thracian coin hoards. Lots of NewStyles from the mid 120's BC ended up in Thrace,probably to bribe or pay mercenary soldiers on behest of the Romans. These circulated well and when eventually hoarded are most often found like my example, well worn and often mixed with imitative Thasos tetradrachms.

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    Athens New Style Tetradrachm c 99/8 BC

    Obs: Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet
    15.43g 29mm Thompson issue 66
    Thompson catalogue: Obs 901: Rev NEW
    REV: ΑΘΕ ethnic
    Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora
    on which month mark H? control ΣΟ/MH below
    3 magistrates : DEMETRIOS AGATHIPPOS OLY
    RF symbol : Caps of Pilloi
    All surrounded by an olive wreath

    This is the largest known NewStyle issue of 47 obverse dies, depending on whose low chronology sequence you follow it can be dated normally to be 99/98/97 BC. It has been mooted that it might be connected to a slave revolt c 100 BC, we don't know. There is fulminating Zeus ae with the caps of the pilloi symbol featured and it is often thus to be date related.
     
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  3. Robert Ransom

    Robert Ransom Well-Known Member

    I was not into Ancients until recently.
    I do not buy coins, but you and others are tempting me by the photos you post.
    Love the coins!
     
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