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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 25318669, member: 87809&quot;]My apologies, but do you mean that Biyza or the Asti are known as Parion? </p><p><br /></p><p>The Drachm, Lot 292 at <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=367114" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=367114" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=367114</a></p><p>doesn&#039;t say THRACE. Biyza or the Asti.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the description from acsearch:</p><p>&quot;Asia Minor</p><p>Parion</p><p>Estimate: CHF 550.00</p><p>Drachm (Silver, 3.86 g), early 5th century. Gorgoneion facing with open mouth and outstretched tongue. Rev. Curiously patterned incuse square. BMC 1 ff. Rosen 525 var. SNG Paris 1351. Of very archaic style. Nicely toned. About extremely fine.</p><p>From the collection of R. Maly, received on 16 April 1968 as a gift from Hess AG who acquired it from R. Hecht.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I found that at <a href="https://indico3.conference4me.psnc.pl/event/6/contributions/323/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://indico3.conference4me.psnc.pl/event/6/contributions/323/" rel="nofollow">https://indico3.conference4me.psnc.pl/event/6/contributions/323/</a> you suggested a style much closer to the coinage of Olbia than Western Asia Minor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Topalov in &quot;Urban Bronze Coins of Small Denomination from the Propontis Area&quot; at <a href="https://archive.org/details/UrbanBronzeCoinsOfSmallDenominationFromOdrysianKings5th-4thCenturies/page/n69/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/UrbanBronzeCoinsOfSmallDenominationFromOdrysianKings5th-4thCenturies/page/n69/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/UrbanBronzeCoinsOfSmallDenominationFromOdrysianKings5th-4thCenturies/page/n69/mode/2up</a></p><p>includes an Odryssian imitation and mentions Thracian coinage. But I can&#039;t find who says Thrace, Biyza or the Asti?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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