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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 4710114, member: 95174&quot;]This thread helped me decide one of my newest acquisitions. [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] posted two of the same type that are far more beautiful than my example. I choose this one because of the Jade Green Patina, the details are lacking but the price was right. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1155659[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Dealers notes bellow. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Macedon under Roman rule, ca. 166-165 BC, bronze unit, 24mm, 12.09g</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Facing mask of Silenos, wearing ivy wreath</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Greek legend MAKE/DONON in two lines, Latin &#039;D&#039; above, all within oak wreath</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Reference:</b> Drag 815; Cop 1324-6; MacKay pl. III, 10; Tour 25</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Grading:</b> F , jade green patina, some scratches and brown earthen highlights, scarce</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Comment:</b> An interesting and scarce type on a substantial flan. Its traditionally attribution was to the time of praetor D. Junius Silanus Manlianus (148-147 BC) - perhaps indicating a pun in the choice of obverse design - but more recent scholarship, based in part on hoard evidence, has apparently abandoned it in favor of the earlier dating given above. Draganov&#039;s 2001 catalog on royal Macedonian issues esentially ends with the Roman province series, and confirms this revised dating, further referencing MacKay. The &#039;D&#039; on the rev. top stands for &#039;Decreto&#039;, presumably signifying the Senate&#039;s authorization of the recoining or overstriking of earlier Roma issues under the two quaestors. It is conjectured that in the broader wake of the Roman victory at Pydna, with barbarian incursions and other turmoil, the Senate&#039;s idea was to stress the &quot;freedom and independence&quot; of the four newly formed Macedonian administrative units (&#039;merides&#039;), by stripping the more explicit references to Roman overlordship evident on the first issues in the immediate aftermath of Pydna (governorship by consul Aemilius Paullus and the quaestors) and replace them with more acceptable types stressing locally recognizable themes and legends.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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