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<p>[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3792376, member: 82322"]I apologize for hijacking your thread, Ryro.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Upon reflection I am getting a stronger feeling about the obverse. Recall the dart sling was invented "... during the Third Macedonian War between Rome and Perseus of Macedon." Let's take a look at another coin type struck by Perseus of Macedon:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1013230[/ATTACH] </p><p>Macedon, Perseus (imitating Rhodes), Thessalian mint, circa 171 BC, drachm 2.89g</p><p>ex Stacks, June 2002</p><p>Obv: Helios facing</p><p>Rev: GORGOS; Rose with bud to left, grape bunch to right.</p><p>Ref: Ashton “A series of Pseudo-Rhodian drachms from Mainland Greece,” <i>NC</i> (1988) #31 </p><p>cf. <a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=246417" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=246417" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=246417</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The obverse of your coin seems, at least to me, to be in a similar style to the "Cretan Mercenaries in Thessaly" series that Ashton wrote about. Specifically the sloppier "grape bunch" type, with magistrates ΣTPATΩN and GORGOS, and not the EPMIAΣ examples. It is hard to find die matches in this series, but might be worth looking for an obverse match.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ed Snible, post: 3792376, member: 82322"]I apologize for hijacking your thread, Ryro. Upon reflection I am getting a stronger feeling about the obverse. Recall the dart sling was invented "... during the Third Macedonian War between Rome and Perseus of Macedon." Let's take a look at another coin type struck by Perseus of Macedon: [ATTACH=full]1013230[/ATTACH] Macedon, Perseus (imitating Rhodes), Thessalian mint, circa 171 BC, drachm 2.89g ex Stacks, June 2002 Obv: Helios facing Rev: GORGOS; Rose with bud to left, grape bunch to right. Ref: Ashton “A series of Pseudo-Rhodian drachms from Mainland Greece,” [I]NC[/I] (1988) #31 cf. [URL]https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=246417[/URL] The obverse of your coin seems, at least to me, to be in a similar style to the "Cretan Mercenaries in Thessaly" series that Ashton wrote about. Specifically the sloppier "grape bunch" type, with magistrates ΣTPATΩN and GORGOS, and not the EPMIAΣ examples. It is hard to find die matches in this series, but might be worth looking for an obverse match.[/QUOTE]
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