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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4451256, member: 99456"]a very nice coin! a long way from the the end of the second Punic Way. Rome was not as easy to exterminate as he hoped.</p><p><br /></p><p>A nice Asclepius. Still more more info on the the OP coin related to your #1 on mints: in <a href="http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/ref/collection/amar/id/22037" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/ref/collection/amar/id/22037" rel="nofollow">M7 p74 Johnston & Buttrey</a> question whether they were struck in multiple cities or struck for multiple cities in Pergamon:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111022[/ATTACH]</p><p>There is a<font size="6"> <a href="http://allcoinage.com/rc_mg0283.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://allcoinage.com/rc_mg0283.php" rel="nofollow"><font size="5">ΔIO monogram</font></a> </font>listed at [USER=80556]@David@PCC[/USER]'s site associated with a coin of Sardes that matches my #1a monogram, although I have trouble seeing the "o" on the <a href="http://allcoinage.com/image_example.php?example=526.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://allcoinage.com/image_example.php?example=526.1" rel="nofollow">the coin listed</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some additional <a href="http://www.attalus.org/docs/sig2/s629.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.attalus.org/docs/sig2/s629.html" rel="nofollow">inscriptions from 182 BC declaring</a> the festival of Eumenes II, "<i>the musical contest equal to the Pythian games and the gymnastic and horse-racing contests equal to the Olympic games</i>".[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 4451256, member: 99456"]a very nice coin! a long way from the the end of the second Punic Way. Rome was not as easy to exterminate as he hoped. A nice Asclepius. Still more more info on the the OP coin related to your #1 on mints: in [URL='http://digital.library.stonybrook.edu/cdm/ref/collection/amar/id/22037']M7 p74 Johnston & Buttrey[/URL] question whether they were struck in multiple cities or struck for multiple cities in Pergamon: [ATTACH=full]1111022[/ATTACH] There is a[SIZE=6][B] [/B][URL='http://allcoinage.com/rc_mg0283.php'][SIZE=5]ΔIO monogram[/SIZE][/URL][B] [/B][/SIZE]listed at [USER=80556]@David@PCC[/USER]'s site associated with a coin of Sardes that matches my #1a monogram, although I have trouble seeing the "o" on the [URL='http://allcoinage.com/image_example.php?example=526.1']the coin listed[/URL]. Some additional [URL='http://www.attalus.org/docs/sig2/s629.html']inscriptions from 182 BC declaring[/URL] the festival of Eumenes II, "[I]the musical contest equal to the Pythian games and the gymnastic and horse-racing contests equal to the Olympic games[/I]".[/QUOTE]
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