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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3277476, member: 75937&quot;][ATTACH=full]865697[/ATTACH]</p><p>Mysia, Pergamon, 200-133 BC? 133-27 BC?</p><p>Bronze Æ 15.7 mm, 3.55 g, 12 h.</p><p>Obv: Head of Athena right, wearing crested helmet ornamented with star.</p><p>Rev: AΘΗ-ΝΑΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ, owl standing facing on palm, with wings spread,TK monogram left and ΠΛ right.</p><p>Refs: SNG Copenhagen 388 (same); c.f. SNG von Aulock 1375-6, BMC 197-199, SNG France 1920-2, SNG BN 1913-6 (various monograms).</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>I received this small bronze coin of Pergamon as a Christmas gift and I&#039;ve been trying to learn more about it. It seems there are innumerable marks in the fields to the left and the right of the owl on the reverse of this issue. What is the significance of these? Does anyone know more about this issue in particular?</p><p><br /></p><p>Moreover, the date of these issues is a matter of some controversy. The British Museum[1] and others have ascribed this small bronze coin of Pergamon, Mysia, to the period (133 BC to Augustus) when the Pergamene kingdom and its capital became part of the Roman province of Asia.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]865696[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>However, Von Fritze has argued these issues should be assigned to the later period of the Pergamene kingdom, circ. 200-133 BC.[2] For this reason, Head and Hill conclude coins of this issue would have been a civic issue supplementing the regal issue of bronze coins and doubt whether any bronze coins were struck at Pergamum between 133 BC and the time of Augustus.[3] Von Fritze[4] postulates the coins with ΑΘΗΝΑΣ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ and owl reverse types may have been struck in 183 BC in connection with the Nikephoria.[4]</p><p><br /></p><p>Is there additional evidence from more recent scholarship about dating these issues? Is there an article or website devoted to exploring these issues? Any help or comments are appreciated. Of course, feel free to post your similar coins or anything you feel is relevant!</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Wroth, Warwick William, and Reginald Stuart Poole. <i>Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Mysia</i>. The British Museum, 1892, pp. 132-3.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279811/page/n167" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279811/page/n167" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279811/page/n167</a></p><p><br /></p><p>2. Hans von Fritze, &quot;Zur Chronologie der autonomen Prägung von Pergamon.&quot; in <i>Corolla Numismatica, Numismatic Essays in Honour of Barclay V. Head. With a Portrait and Eighteen Plates, </i>(George Francis Hill, <i>ed</i>.). Oxford, 1906, pp. 47 ff.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029768565#page/n69/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029768565#page/n69/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029768565#page/n69/mode/2up</a></p><p><br /></p><p>3. Head, Barclay V., and G. F. Hill. <i>Historia Numorum: a Manual of Greek Numismatics</i>. Spink &amp; Son LTD, 1963, pp. 535-6. Generously provided online by [USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER] :</p><p><a href="http://snible.org/coins/hn/mysia.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://snible.org/coins/hn/mysia.html" rel="nofollow">http://snible.org/coins/hn/mysia.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>4. Hans von Fritze, ibid, p. 56.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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