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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 4908572, member: 106483&quot;]The respected numimatist Peter Thoneman in his book the Hellenistic World is not a fan of the NewStyle especially the latter ones. So I guess I wouldn&#039;t get invited to his parties! Gosh! How dare he says such things about my beloved?</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;</p><p>The very earliest New Style tetradrachms, dating to the mid-160s BC, carry fairly discreet monograms to the left and right of the owl on the reverse (Fig. 7.6). But these monograms are soon replaced by up to three different magistrates’ names spelled out in full, usually accompanied by one or more mint-symbols (Thompson 1961: 546–607; Mattingly 2004: 85–99). The result is that the – originally rather elegant – reverse type of the New Style coinage becomes increasingly cluttered. Fig. 7.7 illustrates an issue dating to 115/14 BC, with the abbreviation Athe for Athens followed by the three names Me¯trodōros, Miltiade¯s and Hermogene¯s, along with a bunch of grapes as a mint-mark and the letters Pe (of uncertain meaning) at the bottom. The whole thing is, frankly, a barely legible mess.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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