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<p>[QUOTE="NewStyleKing, post: 7531514, member: 106483"]Hope you find this interesting...on academia.edu</p><p><br /></p><p>THE TAUROPOLOS TETRADRACHMSOF THE FIRST MACEDONIAN</p><p> MERIS </p><p>:</p><p>PROVENANCE</p><p>,</p><p> ICONOGRAPHY AND DATING</p><p>*</p><p>*Many thanks are due to Michel Amandry for providing references to auctions and photos and also to Melih Arslan for the photo of the coin in the Sinope Museum.</p><p>Sophia KREMYDI-SICILIANOU</p><p>SUMMARY This article assembles the dispersed material of a series of Hellenistic tetradrachms of the first district (meris) of Macedonia. By combining the evidence of the dies, the monograms and the style of the coins we have proposed a sequence for the successive issues. Furthermore, we have discussed the chronology of the series based on the evidence of the hoards as well as on historical and numismatic considerations; a date to the late Antigonid period, during the reigns of Philip V or Perseus, can be securely established. Finally, the head of Zeus Dodonaios on the obverse of the coins, a type introduced on the bronze coinage of Philip V, has been considered to reflect the close political ties between Macedonia and Epiros, at a time when the ruler of Macedonia was a grandson of Pyrhhos.The type of the Tauropolos on the reverse was an evident choice for an issue minted at Amphipolis, capital of the first district</p><p>F019_015_KREMIDI-SISILIOYteliko 14/10/2009 02:09 πµ Page 191</p><p><img src="https://html.scribdassets.com/87t2i0ck1s3qgzyw/images/13-eeeb0995b5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="https://html.scribdassets.com/87t2i0ck1s3qgzyw/images/13-eeeb0995b5.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NewStyleKing, post: 7531514, member: 106483"]Hope you find this interesting...on academia.edu THE TAUROPOLOS TETRADRACHMSOF THE FIRST MACEDONIAN MERIS : PROVENANCE , ICONOGRAPHY AND DATING * *Many thanks are due to Michel Amandry for providing references to auctions and photos and also to Melih Arslan for the photo of the coin in the Sinope Museum. Sophia KREMYDI-SICILIANOU SUMMARY This article assembles the dispersed material of a series of Hellenistic tetradrachms of the first district (meris) of Macedonia. By combining the evidence of the dies, the monograms and the style of the coins we have proposed a sequence for the successive issues. Furthermore, we have discussed the chronology of the series based on the evidence of the hoards as well as on historical and numismatic considerations; a date to the late Antigonid period, during the reigns of Philip V or Perseus, can be securely established. Finally, the head of Zeus Dodonaios on the obverse of the coins, a type introduced on the bronze coinage of Philip V, has been considered to reflect the close political ties between Macedonia and Epiros, at a time when the ruler of Macedonia was a grandson of Pyrhhos.The type of the Tauropolos on the reverse was an evident choice for an issue minted at Amphipolis, capital of the first district F019_015_KREMIDI-SISILIOYteliko 14/10/2009 02:09 πµ Page 191 [IMG]https://html.scribdassets.com/87t2i0ck1s3qgzyw/images/13-eeeb0995b5.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://html.scribdassets.com/87t2i0ck1s3qgzyw/images/13-eeeb0995b5.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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