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Message:: [QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2383420, member: 74282"]As far as I know, there is no hoard which provides firm evidence for dating, the 142-141 BC date simply comes from the assumption that it was a visual pun on the praetor's name(the praetorship of Silanus being firmly dated from historical sources) and stylistic evidence placing these types in the mid second century BC. One point I missed above as well is that some of the types struck by Publilius were carried over from types in use in Bottiaeia and Amphaxitis before the Romans came into Macedon(I.e. Alegandron's "Eeyore") and that makes it hard to reconcile these quaestors' types with the later date. This combined with the fact that even though Publilius struck multiple types, only the Roma types are known to be overstruck with the Silenus type seems to suggest that they were chronologically linked, as it seems very unlikely that one would attempt to overstrike all these specific types a quarter of a century later after Rome was officially annexing Macedonia, but much more sense after deciding to split Macedon into client republics. As far as auction houses, interestingly the CNG archives have examples of both dates. One of the more recent auctions follows the 167-165 BC dating but older auctions reference the 142-141 BC dating.[/QUOTE]