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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7816203, member: 110350&quot;]I suppose the reason why there&#039;s been so much effort expended towards dating the PTOL- series of Tralleis cistophoric tetradrachms -- work that was already ongoing when BMC 22 Lydia was published in 1901, as well as when Pinder was published in 1856, and has continued up to the present day -- as compared to other cistophori of Tralleis, is that the PTOL- series bears dates (1-9), and the others don&#039;t. It must be irresistible to try to establish when the dates began (just as it has for the dated cistophori of Ephesus) -- and. in the case of Tralleis, why they ended so quickly. The most recent theory of a &quot;Sullan Era,&quot; reflected in our posts above, seems to work very well and has apparently been generally accepted in academia, but hasn&#039;t even begun to penetrate the consciousness of most dealers and collectors. And who knows if some different theory may take hold at some future time, based on further discoveries?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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