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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8197418, member: 87809&quot;]I am trying to read the monograms on the reverse of this Roman Republic, First Meris tetradrachm:</p><p>32 x 34 mm, 17.068 g</p><p>Amphipolis, 158 - 150 BC</p><p>SNG Copenhagen 1314-1315; SNG Hunterian 3, 1103; AMNG III-I, 178; SNG Ashmolean 3296-3299; Sear 1386; Berlin 19;</p><p><br /></p><p>There doesn’t seem to be a consensus about what the letters are.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1435967[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1435968[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Have been looking at many threads at CT about this type. The descriptions at CT as well as at acsearch usually just say “monogram above, two monograms below”, but when the monograms are described one can find the most diverse descriptions for the same coin and monograms, (or maybe I need a new pair of glasses…), e.g:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1.) ΣΗΑTΡ at </p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macedonia-under-roman-rule-tetradrachm.386455/#post-7891299" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macedonia-under-roman-rule-tetradrachm.386455/#post-7891299">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macedonia-under-roman-rule-tetradrachm.386455/#post-7891299</a></p><p><br /></p><p>2.) ΘΩΡ monogram; beneath ΤKΡ and ΤΥΕ; at</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macedon-under-roman-rule.276465/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macedon-under-roman-rule.276465/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macedon-under-roman-rule.276465/</a></p><p>and</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macedon-under-roman-rule.276465/#post-2379661" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macedon-under-roman-rule.276465/#post-2379661">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/macedon-under-roman-rule.276465/#post-2379661</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>3.) SHAR monogram above, to left TK and to right TME monograms, at</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6517044" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6517044" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6517044</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>4.) ΣHOP in monogram above, TKP in monogram below to left, MTE in monogram below to right; at</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5668775" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5668775" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5668775</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>5.) BDTR monogram above, TKR and TME monograms below</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2785245" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2785245" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2785245</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>On mine I think the monogram above is <i>ΣΗΔTΡ where Δ is on top of T and the monograms below are TKP and ME (or TYE and the letter T has just lost the horizontal bar, which I doubt).</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I found the monogram ME in a publication by Sophia Kremydi-Sicilianou&nbsp; “The Tauropolos Tetradrachms Of The First Macedonian <i>Meris</i>: Provenance, Iconography And Dating” but the hoard discussed doesn’t have an Artemis tetradrachm with monogram ME.</p><p><br /></p><p>How do you read the monograms and do you have a reference where one can find those?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Please share your First Meris tetradrachms and descriptions of monograms</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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