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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 4561062, member: 106483&quot;]Athens New Style c 86/85 or a year earlier...Star between 2 Crescents with Star and 2 Crescents replaced with Headdress of Isis. I don&#039;t know how the replacement was done-on the die on the coin, etc. When I saw this in DeCallatay&#039;s Historie des guerres Mitradatique vue les pars monnique ( close but no gold star) it added the final nail into my theory extended from Ashton&#039;s work on Rhodian large bronze coinage to Ephesian coins that the symbol of Isis became a pro-Roman symbol during the 1st Mithradatic wars because of Mithradates&#039;s failure to take Rhodes where a angry bolt hurling epiphany of Isis appeared when a sambuca assaulted and insulted her temple just beyond the Rhodian walls and sunk it.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1129037[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So this is&nbsp; doubly important, a King Mithridates as first magistrate with the tyrant Aristion minted in Athens when Archelous was the Pontic general in Pireas. This coin is history itself with famous names and at the exact time of famous tumultuous events. Essentially the end of Hellenism certainly the Greek world and commemorates the appearance of one of my favourite goddesses.</p><p>This unique example was not in the NSSCA and is in the BN de France.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wrote about this in Mithradates in Paris and London on my academia. edu page under the name John Arnold Nisbet[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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