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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3235962, member: 82322&quot;]Perhaps we can turn this into a coin thread, showing coins that lack a consensus date range.&nbsp; Here is a bronze of Amphipolis in Macedon:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]846044[/ATTACH] </p><p>Macedon, Amphipolis, AE22, 11.26g</p><p>Oobv: Winged Medusa head in three-quarters or facing view with curly hair, serpents in hair, all within circle of beads.</p><p>Rev: ΑΜΦΙΠ[Ο]-ΛΕΙΤΩΝ; Athena holding Nike within border of dots.</p><p>Ref: <i>SNG ANS</i> 147-8, Lindgren <i>Europe</i> 937, <i>SNG Copenhagen</i> 85-86 </p><p><br /></p><p>Barclay Head, keeper at the British Museum put the coin in the “168 BC to Imperial” range writing <i>BMC Macedonia </i>in 1879.&nbsp; George MacDonald, curator at the Hunterian in Glasgow, dated to “Imperial Times” (meaning no earlier than 44 BC?) writing <i>Catalogue of Greek Coins in the Hunterian Collection</i> in 1899.</p><p><br /></p><p>A bunch of catalogs were written and included this type using the dates from BMC (e.g. Katharina Martin, <i>Sammlung Köhler-Osbahr</i> (2003); H. C. Lindgren, <i>Europe</i> (1989); Serge Boutin <i>Pozzi</i> (1979)).</p><p><br /></p><p>Other catalogs used dates from MacDonald (e.g. Nancy Waggoner, <i>SNG ANS</i> (1987); Nils Breitenstein, <i>SNG Copenhagen</i> (1943); Balázs Kapossy, <i>SNG Switzerland: Righetti</i> (1993)).</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect a better range is 187-158 BC.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; The unusual thing about this coin is the orientation of the inscription.&nbsp; I can only think of one other Amphipolis with that orientation: <a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=126651" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=126651" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=126651</a> .&nbsp; The CNG cataloger dates that shield/scorpion coin to circa 187-168/7 BC.&nbsp; The obverse of that coin, a shield with crescents as boss, is a match for royal issues of king Perseus struck 178-168 BC.&nbsp; It’s reasonable to assume Amphipolis used the crescent boss shield obverse type during Perseus’ reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>These Medusa bronzes are thick, unlike other Amphipolis bronzes, which may mean their metal content was important.&nbsp; Amphipolis was forbidden by the Roman occupation to strike silver coins between 168 and 158 BC so may have struck heavier bronzes than usual then.</p><p><br /></p><p>I propose these coins were struck at the end of the Macedonian kingdom period or very early in the Roman era.</p><p><br /></p><p>I came up with a range completely different than Head&#039;s and MacDonald&#039;s, but at least I can give two reasons for proposing my range.&nbsp; They never gave their reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post any coins that have different dates in different catalogs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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