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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4518894, member: 82322&quot;]I missed this thread the first time around.</p><p><br /></p><p>CNG&#039;s attribution to Aspendos is the best.&nbsp; Most auction houses use SNG Paris (also called SNG BN or SNG France) because the volume dedicated to Pamphylia and Pisidia documents a pretty good collection.&nbsp; What most people don&#039;t know is the BnF&#039;s coin collection is online.&nbsp; Here is there example:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8514547z" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8514547z" rel="nofollow">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8514547z</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The attribution to Aspendos is because of the similarity to SNG BN 140, a slinger bronze with the same monogram.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t find 140, but here is 139, which is similar but with a different monogram.</p><p><a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85145595" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85145595" rel="nofollow">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85145595</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The BN catalog has runs of horse/knucklebone, shield/caduceus, etc, all with varying letter combos no one understands.</p><p><br /></p><p>George Hill, author of the BMC volume on Pamphylia and Pisidia, wrote “The separation from each other of the coinages of Selge and Aspendus is very difficult. In the fourth and third centuries there was apparently a monetary convention between the two places and a similar agreement seems to have existed even earlier.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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