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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4104277, member: 82322&quot;]You have the combination &quot;ME with I-wearing-upside-down-A&quot;.&nbsp; I have seen this in</p><p>William Henry Waddington, <i>Recueil général des monnaies grecques d&#039;Asie Mineure</i> (1904), vol. i. p. 57.&nbsp; He cites &quot;Imh&quot;, &quot;B&quot;, &quot;Loebb&quot;, and &quot;P&quot;.&nbsp; <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ipOQsjW8aNkC&amp;pg=PA57" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ipOQsjW8aNkC&amp;pg=PA57" rel="nofollow">https://books.google.com/books?id=ipOQsjW8aNkC&amp;pg=PA57</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Every combination I have seen from Amisos has been on that 1904 table or in Michel Amandry, Brigitte Le Guen-Pollet, Birsel Özcan et Bernard Remy, “Le Tresor De Binbasioglu (Tokat, Turquie) - Monnaies de Bronze des Villes du Pont Frappees sous Mithridate VI Eupator”, <i>Pontica</i> I (1991).&nbsp; The new symbols in Amadry are a ΔΕ monogram, a “bat” monogram, a variant of the ΓΑ monogram, a new ΕΚ, a new ΡΔ (?), and a new ΡΘΔ.</p><p><br /></p><p>Warwick Wroth linked a monogram to “Arch-elous&quot;, but not your monogram.&nbsp; No clue though if Wroth got it correct, or if Arch-elous is Mithradates’ son, king Archelous of Cappadocia vs Mithradates’ general Archelous who defected to the Romans in 83 BC.&nbsp; I don&#039;t recall if any of the other monograms even have a proposal for their decoding.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for when, François de Callataÿ wrote “[the Piraeus hoard] proves the type ‘Aegis/Nike’ was struck prior to 86 BC, the date of the Sack of Athens and of the destruction of the house where it was found.”&nbsp; He continues “no significant strike of Mithradatic bronzes ever occurred after the end of the first war (85 BC)”.&nbsp;&nbsp; Although de Callataÿ doesn’t give a start date in this paper, in another paper de Callataÿ says 95 BC.&nbsp; Those are the dates I use, other sources give different numbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>For a reference, yours looks like <a href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_1191" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_1191" rel="nofollow">SNGuk_0901_1191</a> SNG Black Sea 1191.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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