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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8226288, member: 84744&quot;]I think they&#039;re probably referring to <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3019961" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3019961" rel="nofollow">these tetradrachms</a>:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1445529[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>^Not my coin!&nbsp; Although I do have a slightly earlier issue, of Aristion, who was the tyrant allied with Mithridates, and who was in control of the city when Sulla put it under siege.&nbsp; My coin was probably issued not long before the siege (see the Mithridatid symbol, Pegasos):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1445530[/ATTACH] </p><p>(Obverse die match to Thompson 980a)</p><p><br /></p><p>These are a wee bit easier to come by than the Sulla issues but are still closely connected to the event.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Sulla denarius:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1445532[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And a 54 BC issue of Q. Pompeius Rufus referring to Sulla, who was his grandfather (via Cornelia Sulla):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1445533[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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