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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3882374, member: 82322"]I have struggled with the dates on these. I read the books, I try to decipher the date, but then I find a professionally cataloged example with the same date that has been deciphered differently.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example,</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1025452[/ATTACH] </p><p>Phoenicia, Arados, Era date 215: CIE (beth) 45/4 BC, AE15, 3.82g</p><p>Obv: Braided, bearded head of Zeus r.; within circle of dots</p><p>Rev: Prow of galley l. with Athena Promachos fighting as figure-head; above ΙΔ; below CΙΕ</p><p>Ref: Duyrat série 10, SNG Copenhagen 382 (as uncertain mint), BMC <i>Phoenicia</i> p. 297 #2</p><p><br /></p><p>The legend has Greek, Latin, and Phoenician letters together, which is unusual! I struggled with it until I found the examples in Copenhagen and the BM.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a long thread on Arados bronzes <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=93142.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=93142.0" rel="nofollow">on another forum</a> which is very helpful to understanding the dates.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3882374, member: 82322"]I have struggled with the dates on these. I read the books, I try to decipher the date, but then I find a professionally cataloged example with the same date that has been deciphered differently. For example, [ATTACH=full]1025452[/ATTACH] Phoenicia, Arados, Era date 215: CIE (beth) 45/4 BC, AE15, 3.82g Obv: Braided, bearded head of Zeus r.; within circle of dots Rev: Prow of galley l. with Athena Promachos fighting as figure-head; above ΙΔ; below CΙΕ Ref: Duyrat série 10, SNG Copenhagen 382 (as uncertain mint), BMC [I]Phoenicia[/I] p. 297 #2 The legend has Greek, Latin, and Phoenician letters together, which is unusual! I struggled with it until I found the examples in Copenhagen and the BM. There is a long thread on Arados bronzes [URL='http://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=93142.0']on another forum[/URL] which is very helpful to understanding the dates.[/QUOTE]
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