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<p>[QUOTE="Mike Margolis, post: 8499759, member: 88401"]OK thank you David. I found another similiar coin on acsearch so I guess they are dated from 109 BCE minus the dated year. If you are right that delta=13 then it is about 96 BCE:</p><p>Greek Silver & Bronze Coins(from acsearch)</p><p>Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Seleucia, (after 109 B.C.), issued in year 15 = 95-4 B.C., silver tetradrachm, (14.83 g), obv. veiled and turreted bust of Tyche to right, in bead and reel border, rev. thunderbolt, with fillet on cushion on stool, SELEUKEWN / THS IERAS, below KAI / AVTONOMOY, between legs of stool EI (date = 15), (S.5887, Cohen DCA 697, cf.BMC 19 [date listed] for year 13], cf.SNG Fitz. 5960, Lanz 125, [lot 488], only recorded example, HGC 9, 1382). Toned, good very fine, very rare.Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 63 (lot 3611). Leu Numismatik sold a similar condition example of year 13, on 26 February 2022 (lot 1631) for 2400 SFr.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Margolis, post: 8499759, member: 88401"]OK thank you David. I found another similiar coin on acsearch so I guess they are dated from 109 BCE minus the dated year. If you are right that delta=13 then it is about 96 BCE: Greek Silver & Bronze Coins(from acsearch) Syria, Seleucis and Pieria, Seleucia, (after 109 B.C.), issued in year 15 = 95-4 B.C., silver tetradrachm, (14.83 g), obv. veiled and turreted bust of Tyche to right, in bead and reel border, rev. thunderbolt, with fillet on cushion on stool, SELEUKEWN / THS IERAS, below KAI / AVTONOMOY, between legs of stool EI (date = 15), (S.5887, Cohen DCA 697, cf.BMC 19 [date listed] for year 13], cf.SNG Fitz. 5960, Lanz 125, [lot 488], only recorded example, HGC 9, 1382). Toned, good very fine, very rare.Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 63 (lot 3611). Leu Numismatik sold a similar condition example of year 13, on 26 February 2022 (lot 1631) for 2400 SFr.[/QUOTE]
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