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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 6442205, member: 106483&quot;]Wow thanks for all the interest!</p><p>I won&#039;t tease you anymore.</p><p><br /></p><p>One obverse that only looks like an obverse for the official Ares type;3 different reverses, Headdress of Isis, Ares and Stag.</p><p><br /></p><p>The HoI is an invented reverse copy and interestingly imitates a type that was officially issued some 7 or so before the Sullan siege. </p><p>Ares looks very like the official Ares type but the second magistrate&#039;s name is spelled wrong, the final E should be a Σ. The horse protomes are just dots and Athena&#039;s hair is lank. The official Ares coinage is post-Sullan!</p><p>Stag&#039;s reverse features an awkward undersized owl.Stag is also a post Sullan issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>The new Stag is an unpublished imitation. Look at the overstuffed owl just like that on the imitation Ares-no doubt by the same artist. The headcap covering is stuffed full of feathers. The 2nd control IEI is an error for IΣI. The obverse looks similar to an official Stag for this period but the horse protomes are just dots, the hair is lank and the curl of hair escaping by the ear from the helmet is straight and not curled as in the official examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>Where these imitations were made we do not know but the time of the 2nd or 3rd Mithradatic wars look likely and produced by pro-Roman supporters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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