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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 5233963, member: 106483&quot;]One coin from the most lovely series sums up essentially the death of Greek independence. As significant as a Eid Mar.IMHO.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1217219[/ATTACH]</p><p>Athens NewStyle Star between 2 Crescents magistrates King Mithradates Vl of Pontus and the tyrant Aristion 87/86 BC time of the Sullan encirclement of Piraeus and Athens. The pontic symbol has been removed ( on the original die or scraped off the coin (more likely)?&nbsp;&nbsp; how can one tell?) and replaced with a Headdress of Isis which I, extending from Ashton, recognise has a pro-Roman symbol since Isis appeared herself in the siege of Rhodes that failed. A very significant She is with us and against you message and coinage with Headdress of Isis&nbsp; symbols soon after 88 BC can be interpreted as pro-roman propaganda.</p><p>This unique coin is in the BNF and appeared just after NSCCA and has attracted, surprisingly, little attention. Published in deCallatay&nbsp; Les Histoire des Guerres Mithradatiques pour vous monnaies 1997.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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