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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4254516, member: 82322&quot;]There were also silver issues during this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1085038[/ATTACH] </p><p>PHRYGIA. Apameia. circa 166-160 BC?. AR cistophorus (31mm, 12h).</p><p>Obv: Serpent emerging from cista mystica; all within ivy wreath</p><p>Rev: Bow in bow case ornamented with aphlaston, flanked by two serpents; AΠ monogram to left, facing gorgoneion head to right.</p><p>Ref: Kleiner-Noe Series -. &quot;An apparently unpublished symbol for this city&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1085041[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The dating to 166-160 is because I believe the style indicates the gorgoneion symbol is of the same time period as the harpa symbol, which Noe dated to 166-160 BC.&nbsp; A more responsible cataloger would say 166-133 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>No one knows what the symbols mean.&nbsp; Magistrate?&nbsp; Silver supplier?&nbsp; Noe published 30 different symbols.&nbsp; There are 21 examples on acsearch.info of Cistophoric tets from Apameia with unpublished symbols. These unpublished &quot;series&quot; are about 10% of the Apameia examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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