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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 4598205, member: 106483&quot;]This heroic style Mithradates Stag is month 3, The A above the control mark is believed by some to be year 1 of the new Athenian era thus 89/88 or 88/7 BC. Others exist upto Delta year 4.</p><p>Very rare.</p><p>But on that reckoning year 4 would be after after the end of the siege of Athens- maybe they were minted in Pergamum for Athens and never got there....but it does appear to be a era date. Most of the controls on theses coins are inexplicable, but Pergamum the seat of the new Mithradatic empire has clear typical controls PiE for Pergamum. Maybe Ephesos without the EPhiE to extinguish the &quot;Roman Province of Asia&quot; era dates on Roman Cistaphori? Ephesos was right on in the knife of the Asiatic vespers-did change their mind a couple of years later!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138768[/ATTACH] Gemini auctions[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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