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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 3073056, member: 57495&quot;]I think this is a really cool type, not least because there&#039;s some uncertainty to the attribution and dating to Pontos and Mithradates VI.&nbsp; The fabric of Ed&#039;s countermarked coin really resembles <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2530003" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2530003" rel="nofollow">this one</a> from a Lanz auction with just a palm branch on the reverse, which the Lanz cataloger places in Cappadocia and with a later date.&nbsp; Further, they use its iconographic similarities to suggest that <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2530005" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2530005" rel="nofollow">another coin</a> in the same auction (like the OP type) is also Cappadocian in origin, and that what looks like a comet with a tail is really a star with a palm branch on top of it.&nbsp; I can see comet on some examples, but I can also be persuaded that it&#039;s a star with palm branch on others, especially those like Pellinore&#039;s, where the palm or tail appear to have what look like a wreath with ribbon ties across it.&nbsp; &nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Like the older references, HGC Vol. 7 gives it to &quot;uncertain Pontic mint(s)&quot; at the time of Mithradates VI, along with a few other types like my rose/star one below.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure if there&#039;s any hoard data to swing the argument one way or the other, but lacking city names on these issues, like on Mithradates&#039; later issues, I&#039;d rather keep my mind open about them.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]772442[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>PONTOS, Uncertain Mint (?)</b></p><p>AE18. 6.0g, 18mm. PONTOS, uncertain mint, circa 130-100 BC (?).&nbsp; HGC 7, 313; cf. SNG BM Black Sea 981f; cf. SNG Stancomb 640.&nbsp; O: Rose. R: Eight-rayed star [between two crescents].[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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