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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1961479, member: 19463&quot;]My two hemidrachms are quite different from each other.&nbsp; The earlier (394-387 BC?) has no magistrate name but the city name PODION weakly above the flower.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]346227[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The later (167-88 BC?) is very late for a coin using the incuse square reverse and crowds in the tiny leters for the magistrate above (Aexagoras?) woth PO flanking the flower.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]346229[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My stater (304-167 BC?) spells out the city name above and abbreviates the magistrate (P&nbsp; EY with a harpa in the space) at lower left.&nbsp; This coin was purchased from Stacks auction in 1990 and was one of my first larger Greek silvers.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]346228[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Has everyone heard that this type was once (1600&#039;s or before?) thought to be much later and to show Christ with crown of thorns rather than Helios.&nbsp; Numismatic scholarship has come a long way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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