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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2238341, member: 19463&quot;]Arodos has quite a few interesting types. My first is a stater of 350-332 BC which I selected for its very odd flan that showed the most of the portrait (King Gerostratos?) and the full reverse legend MA 15 in Phoenecian letters (regnal year 15 = 328 BC) Sear 5977.&nbsp; I barely got the hull of the boat and lost all of the neat waves under it that you see on rounder coins but this is the better of the choices IMHO.&nbsp; Round is overrated.&nbsp; Compare:</p><p><a href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=181796" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=181796" rel="nofollow">http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=181796</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]441189[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next is a coin I have shown before many times from the time Arados was striking Alexander tetradrachms.&nbsp; AP under the throne I&#039;s the city. My coin is a fourree and die duplicate of another fourree that has the year date on flan in reverse exergue so I know it is year OE = 185 BC.&nbsp; I have not seen an OE that was not fourree but there are other years. Sear 5984</p><p>[ATTACH=full]441190[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Next is my tet like Bing&#039;s but year EOP = 175 = 85-84 BC Sear 5992 var.&nbsp; Sear points out these exist from 137 to 45 BC.&nbsp; Year date collectors will need a heavy duty penny board for their set.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]441191[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My bronze with Zeus is AE17 has year date 115 = 179 BC under the ship ram.&nbsp; Again I selected it for having the year date.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]441192[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>One more fourree is from the Arados series issued to pay foreign mercenaries who were accustomed to the coins of Ephesos.&nbsp; Year P = 100 = 160-59 BC;&nbsp; Sear 5989.&nbsp; My question is who would pay mercenaries with bad coins?&nbsp; The style is good but maybe they are unofficial.&nbsp; I have seen several fourrees of this type.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]441201[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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