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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 4167568, member: 106483&quot;]The Greek version: ARES</p><p><b>Athens New Style Tetradrachm c80/9 BC</b></p><p>Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet</p><p>29mm 16.04gm Thompson (new) issue 85</p><p>Thompson catalogue: IMITATION 1419ba</p><p>Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic</p><p>Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora on</p><p>which month mark Α control ΔΙ below</p><p>2 magistrates : EUMELOS THEOXENID(E)S</p><p>RF symbol : Ares</p><p>All within a surrounding olive wreath.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have written about this coin on academia.edu in my real name of John Arnold Nisbet. The coin is an imitation New Style of a genuine official type, but this obverse is coupled with 3 different New Style reverses; Ares,Headdress of Isis and Stag!&nbsp; It is a post-Sullan imitation that has a pre-Sullan type reverse Headdress of Isis which must be acceptable in the new Roman world and is yet another brick into the Headdress of Isis being a pro-Roman symbol from original work by Ashton on Rhodian&nbsp; large bronze module coinage which I have expanded.</p><p><br /></p><p>NEXT- another imitation</p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/23982/normal_Both__Ares_New_Style__80_BC.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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