The respected numimatist Peter Thoneman in his book the Hellenistic World is not a fan of the NewStyle especially the latter ones. So I guess I wouldn't get invited to his parties! Gosh! How dare he says such things about my beloved? " The very earliest New Style tetradrachms, dating to the mid-160s BC, carry fairly discreet monograms to the left and right of the owl on the reverse (Fig. 7.6). But these monograms are soon replaced by up to three different magistrates’ names spelled out in full, usually accompanied by one or more mint-symbols (Thompson 1961: 546–607; Mattingly 2004: 85–99). The result is that the – originally rather elegant – reverse type of the New Style coinage becomes increasingly cluttered. Fig. 7.7 illustrates an issue dating to 115/14 BC, with the abbreviation Athe for Athens followed by the three names Me¯trodōros, Miltiade¯s and Hermogene¯s, along with a bunch of grapes as a mint-mark and the letters Pe (of uncertain meaning) at the bottom. The whole thing is, frankly, a barely legible mess."
@NewStyleKing, it looks like you posted this one in the wrong thread (...?). Granted, the derivation of 'trachy' is as seamless as it looks.
The illustrations look a lot like those done by Mike Harkowitz who gave a paper at several meetings of our Byzantine coin group in New York and other ANA Conventions.
Those illustrations were never done by myself and are actually from an article I got from somewhere, either from Bendall or from another source which I forget...
I am usually good about giving credit to other authors and the like, but I just slipped on that one. It was definitely from Mike Markowitz as I found the original source of the pictures. The content was from Simon Bendall's articles...
I am actually a strong believer in giving credit to other people's work. I do that at work and I do that personally. Its just harder to do on forum posts...
The following series of trachaea were classified as unidentified and I am also having a bit of trouble finding a match. Several have been auctioned off, in one form or another, and I picked them up as much as I could to study the variations. It looks familiar, but also different. Any clues?
Answered my own question. Sear 2261 Obv.: IC XC in field. Bust of Christ, bearded and nimbate; l. hand Gospel. Two groups of three pellets in field. Rev.: Full-length figure of emperor on 1., and of St. Michael, beardless and nimbate; between them labarum on long shaft. Emp wears div., c-p, and jewel. loros of simpl. type; r. hand sc. cr. Bendall- Donald 1974, p. 5, C.4; PCPC 22 (but as St. George on rev.); Sear 2261; DOC V, Class III, pl. 4, 56-7
Here is a new one, lesser seen. Alexius I SBCV-1936 type B ( Noted in CLBC with cross in Labarum.) 29mm 4.05gm These are always silver and from the beginning of the reform. The mint is Philippopolis. This one is ok condition, fine.
I honestly don't know. It looks and feels like a 1230s-1240s Thessalonica issue but it's just not among the known types. Or I just couldn't recognize it.
This looks like the small module version of the the Latin type Jordanov Type IV (CLBC 11.31.3, Lianta 105-6). For more details see here: https://www.glebecoins.org/paleos/Notes/Post_Hendy_Latin_Types/post_hendy_latin_types.html Ross G.