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Message:: [QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 5249732, member: 110350"]PS to [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER]: I knew that the 1932 Regling article you wish you could obtain looked familiar to me: it's mentioned at fn. 14 of the Noe/Kleiner article on Early Cistophoric Coinage, published in 1977, available from the ANS Digital Library: "However attractive, the traditional view, which associates the Dionysus of Tralles, the flutes of Apameia, etc., with the reorganization of the Attalid cities by the Romans upon the formation of the Province of Asia,14 is negated by the abundant evidence to the contrary. 14 For example BMC Lydia cxxxvii. The misdating of the Tralles pieces with ΠTOΛ and dates A to H was corrected by Regling, Frankfurter Münzzeitung 1932, pp. 506-7, 509-10." When I saw the reference, I tried to find it online but couldn't, and then completely forgot about it until I saw your post.  It's rather hard to believe that the inaccuracy of the "traditional view" has been known since 1932, and was reiterated in 1977, and yet the Tralles cistophori for "Years 1-8" are still commonly dated by dealers in accordance with that traditional view.[/QUOTE]