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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4520273, member: 82322&quot;]I like yours better too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did a lot of research on the gorgon/caduceus bronzes.&nbsp; The letter pairs on those cannot be a mark of value because they change.&nbsp; This is ancient Greece, not Zimbabwe!</p><p><br /></p><p>The SNG BN 140 specimen has the same ΠO monogram with a slinger.&nbsp; &quot;Slinger&quot; is supposedly Aspendos&#039; type (although we also see it as Selge and Etenna!).</p><p><br /></p><p>The two-letter bronze coins are confusing.&nbsp; 120 years ago Hill said one thing so the English-speaking world refers to Selge.&nbsp; Imhoof-Blumer said something else so the Francophone world refers to Aspendos.&nbsp; Perhaps someone figured this out during the 20th century.&nbsp; Unfortunately the 100 year old books are online freely, and the 50 year-olds cost $$$ from antiquarian booksellers.</p><p><br /></p><p>A serious scholar would look at the hoards and without them say &quot;Uncertain (Aspendos or Selge?)&quot;.&nbsp; There is only one published coin hoard with bronze from Selge and none from Aspendos.&nbsp; <a href="http://coinhoards.org/id/igch1420" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coinhoards.org/id/igch1420" rel="nofollow">http://coinhoards.org/id/igch1420</a> includes Selge BMC 38 (Herakles/stag) and 59 (shield/lancehead).&nbsp; None of the two-letter bronzes are in any hoards I know of.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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