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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8285244, member: 26430&quot;]<b>Zoilos:</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1463663[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Pseudo-Rhodian Drachm, struck under Perseus, to pay Cretan mercenaries.</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7085365" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7085365" rel="nofollow">CNG once wrote</a> of this type (in EA 470 [17 June 2020], Lot 62, quoting their own Sale XXVII [29 September 1993], Lot 456):</p><blockquote><p>&quot;Price has suggested that the Zo... which replaces the Rhodian ethnic on this issue may be the patronymic of the named issuer, Hermias, and indeed we know of a Hermias son of Zoilos at exactly this period, a man who came from Oropos and was Hieromnemon at Delphi in 178 BC. Zoilos himself may also be the same man whose name appears below the portrait of Perseus on his early tetradrachms, and whose monogram continues to appear on Perseus&#039; coinage for much of the period of the full weight issues.&quot;</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><b>NEXT: Another Wartime Issue</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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