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Message:: [QUOTE="maridvnvm, post: 1931752, member: 31620"]I have been discussing my coin with Curtis Clay and he has raised a few points of detail. I have mis-described the reverse of my coin. What I had taken as being a shield is not a shield (look at Steve's coin to see what the shield should look like) at all and what I had taken as Nike isn't Nike either. My reverse should be more correctly described as follows:- Athena seated left holding Cabeiros (not Nike), seat has leg shaped like a lion's leg. Curtis also provided me with some additional historical context to this particular issue which is marked with OMONOIA rather than NEOK (or one of the many variations thereof). "According to Gaebler, pp. 20-21, these OMONOIA coins have an interesting historical connection in that they apparently commemorated a settlement between the province of Macedonia and the free city of Thessalonica, which did not belong to the Macedonian koinon and was usually squabbling with it. Gaebler thinks that in 231 AD, when Severus Alexander traveled through Macedonia on his way to Syria, Thessalonica and the koinon settled their differences and Thessalonica urged the emperor to allow the koinon to again issue coins with Beroia's title Neokopos, which is missing in this issue but reappears in the next." Martin[/QUOTE]