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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7814013, member: 99456"]This is an even harder coin to find than my OP coin. I've done a quick scan of all of the ΠTOΛ cistophori that there are to find in ACSearch, CNG Research and SixBid Coin Collectors Archive and most of them are either Year 1 or Year 2...your "Year 8" is the only one I find and none from years 5,6,7 or 9.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was trying to decide if you could identify the years that are off-flan by looking at Dionysus on the right side of the reverse. It was inconclusive...not enough coins to compare but year 1 (grapes) and year three (two flowers) might be useful.</p><p><br /></p><p>Year 1/no letter : looks like "bunch of grapes"</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342929[/ATTACH]</p><p>year 2/<b>B</b> coins with mask of Silenos are seem to be the most common - here the middle one is more clear than most:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342930[/ATTACH]</p><p>Year 3/<b>Γ </b>seems to have this "two flowers" - although only two examples that I find on flan:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342932[/ATTACH]</p><p>Year 4<font size="5">/<b>Δ</b></font> probably "mask of Silenos", but some lean more "bucranium"</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1342935[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7814013, member: 99456"]This is an even harder coin to find than my OP coin. I've done a quick scan of all of the ΠTOΛ cistophori that there are to find in ACSearch, CNG Research and SixBid Coin Collectors Archive and most of them are either Year 1 or Year 2...your "Year 8" is the only one I find and none from years 5,6,7 or 9. I was trying to decide if you could identify the years that are off-flan by looking at Dionysus on the right side of the reverse. It was inconclusive...not enough coins to compare but year 1 (grapes) and year three (two flowers) might be useful. Year 1/no letter : looks like "bunch of grapes" [ATTACH=full]1342929[/ATTACH] year 2/[B]B[/B] coins with mask of Silenos are seem to be the most common - here the middle one is more clear than most: [ATTACH=full]1342930[/ATTACH] Year 3/[B]Γ [/B]seems to have this "two flowers" - although only two examples that I find on flan: [ATTACH=full]1342932[/ATTACH] Year 4[SIZE=5]/[B]Δ[/B][/SIZE] probably "mask of Silenos", but some lean more "bucranium" [ATTACH=full]1342935[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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