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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3655199, member: 85693&quot;]An interesting discussion.&nbsp; I recently got one of these, a pretty poor specimen that is of a fairly poor style.&nbsp; While trying to attribute it, I came across this thread and started fretting that it might be a modern forgery.&nbsp; My hunch is that it is not, based on the wear - but this is only a hunch. </p><p><br /></p><p>Several of these for sale on FORVM come with this description:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Sear notes crude Histiaia imitations seem to have been struck in Macedonia just prior to the Roman victory in 168 B.C. During the Republic, Roman military mints sometimes struck imitative types to make local payments. Examples include Thasian imitatives in Macedonia and Philip Philadelphos imitatives at Antioch. This Histiaia type tetrobol is almost certainly one of the imitatives struck in Macedonia by the Roman military.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The FORVM examples look somewhat like mine - crude style, crude planchets.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]982296[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Euboea, Histaia&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Tetrobol</b></p><p><b>(or Roman military imitation)</b></p><p><b>(c. 196-146 B.C.) </b></p><p>Head of Maenad wearing vine-wreath / [ISTI] AIEWN, Nymph Histaia seated on stern of galley holding mast.</p><p>SNG. Cop. 517 (or sim. ?)</p><p>(1.60 grams / 15 x 11 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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