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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2359727, member: 56859&quot;]It&#039;s amazing how much I can get done in Coinland while avoiding housework <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the reference cited by Head:&nbsp; Tacchella, D., “Monnaies autonomes d’Apollonia de Thrace”, <i>Revue Numismatique</i> (1898) p. 210-218.&nbsp; It is available for viewing in its entirety <a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082080519;view=1up;seq=222" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082080519;view=1up;seq=222" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I started typing the article into Google Translate but it is toooooo loooong.&nbsp; I have to flip back and forth between the article and Google Translate because the French words are too unfamiliar and I can only remember a few words at a time.&nbsp; Also, the translation is often not accurate and requires some critical reading and guesswork for true translation:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">In April 1896, while touring the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea for a stay of one week in Sozoupolis (ancient Apollonia in Thrace), I acquired, among other ancient coins, five autonomous small bronzes, all well preserved, two of which had a very nice black patina. In July 1897, on a new tour in the same place, stopping in Sozoupolis five days, I collected a small autonomous archaic silver coin plus four of these same small autonomous imperial bronzes plus one with the image of Faustina minor.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Here is the description of these eleven coins which are now on display at Sophia Museum:</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[drawings and descriptions of coins]</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">I consider that these coins belong to Apollonia in Thrace. An important argument to me is provided by the pieces, of which I will now speak.</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">In Thrace, both in the Ebro valley meadows located in the coastal areas of the Aegean Sea, there are often small pieces of silver of the following types:</span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">[description of coins]</span></p><p><br /></p><p>and then many pages of explanation, which is the important part but I tired of painstakingly typing the unfamiliar words <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Maybe someone else can have a go at it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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