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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 4861964, member: 106483&quot;]<b>Athens New Style Tetradrachm 109/8 BC</b></p><p>Obs : Athena Parthenos in tri-form helmet</p><p>30mm 16.64gm Thompson issue 56</p><p>Thompson catalogue: Obs 724 : Rev ? (altered)</p><p>Rev : AΘE ethnic</p><p>Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora</p><p>on which month mark Δ/Γ control ΠΕ below</p><p>3 magistrates : DAMON SOSIKRATES KRITON</p><p>RF symbol : Quiver &amp; Bow</p><p>All within a surrounding olive wreath</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/23982/NOW_BOTH_QUIVER~0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Saw this loved it and bought it.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Athens New Style Tetradrachm 135/4 BC</b></p><p>Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet</p><p>16.63g 29.2mm Thompson issue 30</p><p>Thompson catalogue: Obs 354 : Rev NEW</p><p>Rev : AΘE ethnic</p><p>Owl standing on overturned Panathenaic amphora on</p><p>which month mark Ν control ΗΡ below</p><p>3 magistrates : MENED EPIGENO ARISTE</p><p>LF symbol : Asklepios clutching stick with snake entwined</p><p>All within a surrounding olive wreath</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/23982/NOW_BOTH_ASKLEPIOS~0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Bought this one next, but noted that dates for other examples were different. I asked for help and then CNG&#039;s Colin Bostock introduced me to Thompson NSSCA.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Athens New Style Tetradrachm 149/8 BC</b></p><p>Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet</p><p>34mm 16.64g Thompson issue 16</p><p>Thompson catalogue: Obs 109 : Rev (not in plates)/ NEW?</p><p>Rev : AΘE ethnic</p><p>Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora</p><p>on which 2 control letters Ε ? : RF month mark Ι</p><p>ΠOΛΥ , TI - MPΔ monogram</p><p>2 magistrates : ΠΟΛΥ TIMARCHIDES</p><p>Symbol : Palm Leaf (oblique behind owl)</p><p>All within a surrounding olive wreath</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/23982/NOW_BOTH_PALM_LEAF.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sometime later I bought this and research then kicked in about the dating controversies,then the Rome-Pontic arguments and then I was hooked...some 55 coins more.......</p><p>I love the research, just parroting others is not good enough, and with the NewStyles I am lucky. Also the interesting hoards started appearing and I was lucky to almost complete my interests in the early coinage quite easily.</p><p>Now I have almost done the same with the Rome-Pontic era and some post-Sullan examples.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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