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<p>[QUOTE="Trebellianus, post: 3458013, member: 91569"]Great coins everyone! [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] 's square drachm is particularly adorable.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm far from an expert on these matters but, as I understand, current thinking has the monograms on Graeco-Bactrian coins as denoting magistrates or mint superintendents rather than mints — there's thought to be too many different symbols for each one to correspond to a different location. The hoard evidence is (I believe) thus far unhelpful towards tying down particular monograms to particular areas where, in theory, these magistrates would have resided.</p><p><br /></p><p>A tetradrachm reverse die was dug up at (probably) Ai-Khanoum, but the monogram on it is rarely found on coins dug up around Ai-Khanoum, to further confuse matters. The point is far from decided, at any rate.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I wrote this facetiously, of course, but legitimately this area abounds with known unknowns and unknown unknowns (as one of the Graeco-Bactrians of our era once said). Which means most of the fascinating discoveries are still ahead of us, at any rate (hopefully)![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Trebellianus, post: 3458013, member: 91569"]Great coins everyone! [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] 's square drachm is particularly adorable. I'm far from an expert on these matters but, as I understand, current thinking has the monograms on Graeco-Bactrian coins as denoting magistrates or mint superintendents rather than mints — there's thought to be too many different symbols for each one to correspond to a different location. The hoard evidence is (I believe) thus far unhelpful towards tying down particular monograms to particular areas where, in theory, these magistrates would have resided. A tetradrachm reverse die was dug up at (probably) Ai-Khanoum, but the monogram on it is rarely found on coins dug up around Ai-Khanoum, to further confuse matters. The point is far from decided, at any rate. I wrote this facetiously, of course, but legitimately this area abounds with known unknowns and unknown unknowns (as one of the Graeco-Bactrians of our era once said). Which means most of the fascinating discoveries are still ahead of us, at any rate (hopefully)![/QUOTE]
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