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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2249984, member: 19463&quot;]Sorry to be late but I was not coining last evening when these would have been appropriate.&nbsp; The first is a stater or didrachm I have had for a long time (ex Stacks).&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]445054[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The other two are hemidrachms. First is older (4th century BC?).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]445053[/ATTACH] </p><p>Last is from the later series (2nd century BC?) with magistrate names in tiny letters.&nbsp; You&#039;ll see these called &#039;Plinthophoric&#039; which is fancy-speak for bearing an incuse square.&nbsp; As I understand the matter, these were made for over a century until hard times and wars with King Mithradates bankrupted the city and forced them to issue even their high denomination coins in base metal.&nbsp; That is where we got Steve&#039;s treasure.&nbsp; Mine seems to read Aexagoras which is a name I have not seen so I may have it wrong.&nbsp; There are a lot of them and many are hard to read with tiny letters and lower grade surfaces. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]445055[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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