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Teos is famed for its Griffins.

This , if you may be interested, is a Tauropollos type coin . Obverse Zeus, reverse Bull and rider. This example is from what used to be called the LARISSA HOARD, now called (I think) the SITICHORO hoard. This fascinating hoard had 2 example of this very rare coin, Pan heads and a Poseidon head Perseus,Phillips, well a mixture. YOU EXPLAIN THE CHRONOLOGY! have a look. No NewStyles but 2 INTERMEDIATE owls with devices. Just prior to the NEWSTYLE .

There is a prominent collection at the Barber Institute of Byzantine coins. The Barber is housed in a specially built Art Deco building just adjacent to Birmingham University UK. Try that for Anastasias gold! It has sculpture inc a magnificent bust of ? Thutmose lll and some cracking paintings and was the personal collection of a UK industrialists family...look it up ,it's online.

SNAP! (almost) Athens New Style Tetradrachm c136/5 BC Obs: Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet 16.81 g 31.5mm Thompson issue 29 Thompson catalogue: Obs 332: Rev c (not in plates) Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora on which month mark Δ control: ΗΡ below 3 magistrates : HRA ARISTOPH POLYM LF symbol: Bow Club & Lionskin All surrounded by an olive wreath

And yet, near the plaka ( don't know the spelling), there was a shop selling genuine coins. Including a NewStyle which I handled. His prices were astronomical! I also remember some Pegasi That was c 2012. I did wonder at the quality of the MA legionary coins too! I arrived one day and they haa staff shortage, but I said I had come all that way to look at the Dekadrachm. So I got a personal viewing!

THE TAUROPOLOS TETRADRACHMS OF THE FIRST MACEDONIAN MERIS: PROVENANCE, ICONOGRAPHY AND DATING* * Many thanks are due to Michel Amandry for providing references to auctions and photos and also to Melih Arslan for the photo of the coin in the Sinope Museum. Sophia KREMYDI-SICILIANOU on academia

as far as I can remember , the study was not without its critics , (BUT what isn't,The late Miss Thompson would know!), but I cannot remember any details! Sorry! I love the Poseidon heads, I always wanted one but the NewStyles got in the way and I sold my other coins to buy more NewStyles! But I do love the later coinage of Macedon The TauroPoulos type coins, Leg Makedonon, First & 2nd Meris, Perseus, Philip V, Aesillas, Sura, Pro Makedon etc... They are all lovely

ANTIGONOS GONATAS: COINAGE, MONEYAND THE ECONOMY Submitted by Panagopoulou Ekaterini for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy HISTORY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON JANUARY 2000

Once in my posession, Antigonus ll Gonatas a "Pan Head" tetradrachm Antigonas ll Gonatas Tetradrachm c 270 / 239 BC Obv: Head of horned Pan left, wearing goat skin, lagobolon over shoulder, within double solid circle on Macedonian shield decorated with 7 stars with 8 rays within double crescents. Rev: Ins: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΝΤΙΓΟΝΟΥ Athena Alkidemos advancing left, holding shield with Gorgoneion head and hurling thunderbolt. Helmet inner left, Rare MTY monogram inner right Amphipolis Mint 17.10gm 30.5 mm

OK! I'll admit Demetrius with a jnr's ticket and Phileterios with an associates one. Certainly Black Craterus's membership card was withdrawn and Ptolomey is suspected of forging his and Seleucus's. No more contenders allowed the books are closed! signed Perdiccas

Yeah, But Demetrius is not a Diadochi, son of yeah! In the last few years lots of good quality fresh coins have appeared, particularly the Poseidon type with Demetrius sprouting horns, which I doubt he had in real life! Philetairos not a diadochi, the coins of this eunuch "founder" of the fascinating Attalid dynasty are riddled with curiosities, Eumenes ll portrait coins, Syros coins, Aristonikos, Cistaphores, Dionysiac artists-techni and the whole who supplied the money for Myrina and Kyme and when and where and who started the fashion for lovely wreath and civic coinages of the "Great transformation" These are the best coins ever and astoundingly enough include, ta ra The Athens Newstyle! . The Phileterai was essentially unravelled by Westmark into Vll groups....OK there are some problems, but generally accepted based on mint marks and hoards, though never seen the paper myself anywhere. Unaware of late Seleukos portraits , I once borrowed Seleucid coins from the Uni library but generally I think it avoided the issue of whose portrait is this and any discussion....although my memory could be bad. Unaware of Lysimachus ae's totally, I'm a gold and silver man essentially!

But maybe they were sort of synonyms? Meanings meld, change, accumulate .etc, Decimate originally meant, I believe, remove 1 in 10, but the modern English would mean more likely something of far greater action indeed in many eyes, something like 9/10 and approach the word devastate, as in lay waste, which the Romans practised! And I'm sure strict "dictionary" meanings altered in Roman times too! ( but I wasn't there at the time so it's speculation") . I'm blessed by the interest of many others in the appreciation of the NewStyle and fortunate in the times of my collecting when hoards appeared commonly, as opposed to now, and successfully amassed a world beating collection! Oh, happy prosperous times, may they NOT reoccur, why should I share my fortune!

The southern Arabians Sa'aba ( Yeman) had the real good taste to drop their copies of the old style Athens and follow with the NewStyle, even into the Roman Imperial times

The Greek Coins Author(s): John H. Kroll and Alan S. Walker Source: The Athenian Agora, Vol. 26, The Greek Coins (1993), pp. iii-v+vii-xxvi+1-295+297- 333+335-355+357-376 Published by: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/360200 My only source for Athenian bronze coins. I used it for the Fulminating Zeus coins with pontic symbols and the latter "NewStyle" owl on amphora bronzes that seem to echo the silver NewStyles. I think their dating is spot on (ish) but the rest is up for debate, unless he has published anything else! Keep me posted!

Who and where is the source of the fakes, Bertolomi seems to be a facilitator. Will I sleep tonight with the fishes?

paper on academia amended!

Thanks for that @John Conduitt. I'm not too good at the melding/merging of photographs etc, but what you have done, thanks, shows that Indeed it is yet another new reverse and I will enter it in my academia.edu paper .

It will have changed almost the moment she published. |Holloway in his review of NSSCA says he went into some auction catalogues and immediately found new combinations! What I did in writing some New coin types in the Athens early NewStyles type was looking to see how rare they were and if Thompson #4 was a single year production or two? Ans; Thompson #1, obverse 1 and 2, no new coins since 1961 I could find in my searches, however obverse 3 seems to have 8 or 9 reverses. Maybe these minted after the first two apparent tentative tries....who knows! Thompson#2, New Obverse and some reverses. Same #3, . #4 Thompson herself found a new obverse but the ANS couldn't find the photographs, and no I am no wiser that it was a 1 year or a 2 year production or no! #5, Since 1961, a few more coins as surfaced, 2 more obverses and reverses, but still a rare coin, but still not rare enough for an imitation to be produced! The NewStyle really took off at Thompson#6

Is it one of these? I'm not sure, but I don't think so!

Above is a Thompson #1, It is Thompson obverse type 3. So far I have found this obverse mated with mated with 6 other reverses, I think this maybe with yet another! What do you think...my eyes are dull I cannot see! What it means quite simply that there was a crazy amount of reverses to the one obverse.If people think it is then I shall add it to the picture above where my extensive researches has taken me. Numbers 1 & 2 are mated with the first Thompson obverses for which I have never found examples except in the ANS collection, so obverse 3 seems to the daddy of them all. Thanks in anticipation!

I'm not a believer. For papers on pamphylian Alexanders try Meadows and MacIntyre for Seleucid eras, via academia.edu.

But the only diadochi portrait is Ptolemy l , Seleucus is doubtful, Eumenes no,Antigonus no, Lysimachus no. Antipater no, Craterus no, Polyperchon no ! Have I missed one? Coins minted by them or thought to be yeah, but maybe not Eumenes or Polyperchon, and Philip ll was never really a Diadochi, but no portrait,.

Athens New Style Tetradrachm c125/4 BC Obs : Athena Parthenos right in tri-form helmet 29mm 16.67g Thompson issue 40 Thompson catalogue : 470f Rev : ΑΘΕ ethnic Owl standing on overturned panathenaic amphora on which month mark Θ control ΜΕ below 3 magistrates : POLEMON ALKETES ARIS LF symbol : Tripod All within a surrounding olive wreath