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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5249603, member: 110350&quot;]Wow, this is utterly fascinating, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER]. Thank you <u>so</u> much! How did you manage to find all this? I have to read what you wrote again more carefully, and look at the sources available online. But as I understand things from my first reading, it now appears that if Carbone and Meadows are correct, the beginning of the dating system in Tralleis had nothing to do with the foundation of the Province of Asia (whether in 133 or five years later), but took place 50 years later. (I think you have a typo at the end, by the way: if Year 9 was 77/76 BCE, then Year 8 should be 78/77, not 76/75.)&nbsp; So the theory in BMC Lydia was totally wrong. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s interesting that since BMC was published in 1901, exactly one more dated year of BMC coins has been discovered: Year 9.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also find it interesting, and rather ironic, that after presenting the traditional dating theory for Tralleis, the author of BMC Lydia (Barclay V. Head, then Keeper of the British Museum&#039;s Dept. of Coins and Medals) actually considers the possibility that Tralles could have minted cistophori beginning circa 84 BCE after the end of the Mithraditic revolt (apparently the current theory), but expressly rejects it. See these three excerpts from the Introduction to BMC Lydia, at pp. cxxxvii and cxxxix (available at <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/BMC/BMC_Lydia.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/BMC/BMC_Lydia.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/BMC/BMC_Lydia.pdf</a>):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218765[/ATTACH]</p><p>. . . .</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218766[/ATTACH]</p><p>. . . .</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1218767[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems that Head ignores the power of Lucullus in the province to cause the minting of silver coins to pay taxes in arrears, as an explanation for the series. (If the current theory is correct.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, or tomorrow, I&#039;ll go read your sources.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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