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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 24496446, member: 87809&quot;]Luckily I do have one of these tetradrachms.</p><p>In the most recent corpus on Macedonian autonomous silver coinage Prokopov has designed the following internal chronology of the series:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. ‘First A’ Group (shortly after 168–149 BC), struck with 26 monogram combinations and additional symbols: dolphin, plough, trident, 8-pointed star, winged thunderbolt, and regular thunderbolt: 26 issues (143 combinations), catalogue numbers 1 – 143;</p><p><br /></p><p>2. ‘First B’ Group – struck with only 1 monogram: 68 issues, catalogue numbers 144 – 212;</p><p><br /></p><p>3. ‘Second A’ Group, after 149/8 BC – struck with 3 monogram combinations and additional symbol – regular thunderbolt: 343 sporadic issues, catalogue numbers 213 – 556;</p><p><br /></p><p>4. ‘Second B’ Group – undated, struck with 1 monogram (AP) and additional symbol – regular thunderbolt, 52 issues, catalogue numbers 557 – 609;</p><p><br /></p><p>5. ‘Third’ Group – ‘conserved’ issues, much later, not stated by Prokopov 21, but it should be regarded actually ca. 120 – 90/80 BC: 134 issues struck with 1 monogram (AP in different versions), 30 obverse and 100 reverse dies, Prokopov catalogue numbers 610 – 744.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/docs/FromKoineToRomanitas.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/docs/FromKoineToRomanitas.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/docs/FromKoineToRomanitas.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Amphipolis, 158 - 150 BC.</p><p>17.068 g; 32 x 34 mm</p><p>Prokopov, Silver Group II.A 13, 510; SNG Copenhagen 1314-1315; SNG Hunterian 3.1, 1103; AMNG III-I, p. 58, 178; SNG Ashmolean 3296-3299; BMC Macedonia p. 8, 8; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis Tauropolos right, bow and quiver over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield decorated with seven eight-pointed stars within double crescents, each separated by three pellets</p><p>Rev.: MAKEΔONΩN / ΠPΩTHΣ above and below club, in field above, ΣΗYΔTΡ monogram, beneath at l. ΤKI and MYE ligated at r. all within oak wreath; thunderbolt to left.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1552708[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1552709[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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