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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lehmansterms, post: 3950265, member: 80804&quot;]Yes, I believe I recall that David Sear makes a similar comment under this type in Greek Coins and Their Values. </p><p>Many types became the prototypes for generations or even centuries of local and also often distant locations&#039; copying. These Histaia 2/3 drachms are an example. The Heracles Staters of Thasos similarly were copied and used in many locations for centuries. There is a whole sub-class of Celtic copies of Thasos Tets on which you can trace the progress of the distortions of the types as local artistic conventions were incorporated into the copies. For one example, in the later Celtic copies of the Thasos tets, the vine diadem and hair of Dionisos morphs over a period of years into a scorpion and eventually &quot;walks away&quot; from the portrait. I had a friend one of whose specialties was the wilder-style Celtic copies of Thasos tets - you should have seen some of the pieces he had.&nbsp; </p><p>Of course the types of Philip II and Alexander III of Macedon were the prototypes of literally thousands of types of very similar coins from hundreds of locations and at various levels of &quot;officialdom&quot; and in production over nearly three centuries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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