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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 8302097, member: 99456"]Great drawings, [USER=100445]@Michael Stolt[/USER] (and [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER]), and it appears some nice coins too. Here's a cartoon with coin:</p><p> </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1468886[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Pamphylia, Perge</b>, 221/0-189/8 BC, AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.0g, 1h), struck in the name and types of Alexander III, dated CY 33 (ΛΓ)</p><p><b>Obv: </b> Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin</p><p><b>Rev: </b>Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΛΓ (date) in left field; c/m: Seleukid anchor within rectangular incuse</p><p><b>Note: </b><a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/43580560" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/43580560" rel="nofollow"><u>Meadows (2009)</u></a> makes the case for this coin being minted 191/190 BC at the end of a period of Seleucid Sponsored freedom for Perge that began in 222/223 BC and ended with Antiochus' defeat by Rome in the Battle of Magnesia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 8302097, member: 99456"]Great drawings, [USER=100445]@Michael Stolt[/USER] (and [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER]), and it appears some nice coins too. Here's a cartoon with coin: [ATTACH=full]1468886[/ATTACH] [B]Pamphylia, Perge[/B], 221/0-189/8 BC, AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.0g, 1h), struck in the name and types of Alexander III, dated CY 33 (ΛΓ) [B]Obv: [/B] Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin [B]Rev: [/B]Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; ΛΓ (date) in left field; c/m: Seleukid anchor within rectangular incuse [B]Note: [/B][URL='http://www.jstor.org/stable/43580560'][U]Meadows (2009)[/U][/URL] makes the case for this coin being minted 191/190 BC at the end of a period of Seleucid Sponsored freedom for Perge that began in 222/223 BC and ended with Antiochus' defeat by Rome in the Battle of Magnesia.[/QUOTE]
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