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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3277857, member: 82322"]Try to research this yourself. Bronze coins don't follow regional weight standards and the expert opinions are often guesses except for a few types found in excavations or dated hoards. Perhaps you will make new progress.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wikipedia has a nice page on the history of the city listing the various kingdoms in control there. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon#History" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon#History" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon#History</a> . The helmet has an eight pointed star. Read the Wikipedia entry for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergina_Sun" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergina_Sun" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergina_Sun</a> . You are looking for a kingdom that would want a Macedonian star on the helmet.</p><p><br /></p><p>Go to <a href="http://isegrim.mybluemix.net/#!?m=AE&po=Pergamum&vt=ATHENA&rt=owl" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://isegrim.mybluemix.net/#!?m=AE&po=Pergamum&vt=ATHENA&rt=owl" rel="nofollow">http://isegrim.mybluemix.net/#!?m=AE&po=Pergamum&vt=ATHENA&rt=owl</a> and find 47 varieties of this coin, some dated "200BC -0 AD <-200/-133>" and others dated "200BC -0 AD <-133/-030>". Ignore the years the experts have given but make a catalog of the monograms.</p><p><br /></p><p>Search for matching monograms on silver coinage of everyone in the region. Try to link up as many monograms as you can with silver coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3277857, member: 82322"]Try to research this yourself. Bronze coins don't follow regional weight standards and the expert opinions are often guesses except for a few types found in excavations or dated hoards. Perhaps you will make new progress. Wikipedia has a nice page on the history of the city listing the various kingdoms in control there. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon#History[/url] . The helmet has an eight pointed star. Read the Wikipedia entry for [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergina_Sun[/url] . You are looking for a kingdom that would want a Macedonian star on the helmet. Go to [url]http://isegrim.mybluemix.net/#!?m=AE&po=Pergamum&vt=ATHENA&rt=owl[/url] and find 47 varieties of this coin, some dated "200BC -0 AD <-200/-133>" and others dated "200BC -0 AD <-133/-030>". Ignore the years the experts have given but make a catalog of the monograms. Search for matching monograms on silver coinage of everyone in the region. Try to link up as many monograms as you can with silver coinage.[/QUOTE]
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