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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8312741, member: 99456&quot;]Wow - some great coins in your 2022 (so far)!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of recent additions from 2022 - the first now written up: &quot;<a href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/roman-republican-sphinx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sullacoins.com/post/roman-republican-sphinx" rel="nofollow">Roman Republican Sphinx</a>&quot;.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1471508[/ATTACH]</p><p>and the second is an unusual Cistophoric tetradrachm circa 145-140 BC from the reign of Attalus II of Pergamum : at least 2 dies and only 3 or 4 examples that I can find...This coin from before the Romans took full control of Asia Minor.&nbsp; This sentence from David Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor, provides some context regarding&nbsp; Attalus III&#039;s decision to bequeath his kingdom to Rome when he died in 133 BC:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;Attalus [</i>III - ruled 138-133 BC<i>] had done the best he could for his people.&nbsp; He had saved them by his will from turmoil and chaos, perhaps even from attack by one of the powers still left in Asia Minor.&nbsp; But his bequest resulted in reducing Pergamum from the royal capital and center of art to a provincial city, and - what was more disastrous - ultimately fastening on his subjects the yoke of the Roman tax-farmer.&quot;</i></p><p><i>-David Magie, Princeton University Press, 1950</i></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1471510[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1471507[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan30795#fig-182" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan30795#fig-182" rel="nofollow">Kleiner &amp; Noe Series 29</a> with cap of the Dioscuri, star above, left and right on reverse, and small serpent below EΦΕ on left on reverse.&nbsp; Same dies as Plate XV coin 9 in Kleiner &amp; Noe.&nbsp; (none found in ACSearch looking for Ephesos tetradrachm cap, Ephesos tetradrachm pileus, Ephesos tetradrachm series 29...)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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