NewStyleKing Posted August 6 · Member Share Posted August 6 This rare coin is in the latest Hirsch auction I have never looked into these coins before but I downloaded,( Free on the web) Thonemann, Silver coinage of Antioch on the Meander, and this turns out to be seemingly another Roman proxy coinage due to the rumblings of the first Mithradatic war. Basically this Antioch produced no silver coinage before and suddenly out of the blue produced a flurry of tetradrachms and drachms of low weight and size! I think Thonemann is correct . What other short term coins issues are entirely due to the Mithradatic wars? Abydos, Seleucia Piera...any others? Bloody Romans, what did they do for us? 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewStyleKing Posted August 6 · Member Author Share Posted August 6 Small size, non- Attic weight, 27mm 14.97 gm. Den of Antiquity Abydos Troas Anyone got any references on the hellenistic silver coins of Abydos Troas. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewStyleKing Posted August 6 · Member Author Share Posted August 6 (edited) Just the kind of person I love. Found this in a note by another Bulgarian scholar. "Penchev 2001. Penchev is the single keeper of the coin collection at the National History Museum in Sofia. As a rule, he strictly forbids any approach for access to and research on the coins in the collection, whether from Bulgarian or foreign scholars." With these people around and nourished....what is the point! Smells fishy to me...what has he got to hide? You cannot make it up, but is the second example i know of...museums eh? Brick prisons of Ignorance. Edited August 6 by NewStyleKing 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewStyleKing Posted August 6 · Member Author Share Posted August 6 (edited) GEORGI DOBREVO/2000 RECONSIDERED: NOTE ON A 1ST-CENTURY BC COIN HOARD FROM THRACE* EVGENI I. PAUNOV Read and be appalled! On academia under E. Paunov A great paper by Evgeni Paunov absolutely fascinating......coins go a hiking in ancient times and today! Edited August 6 by NewStyleKing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deinomenid Posted August 6 · Supporter Share Posted August 6 1 hour ago, NewStyleKing said: With these people around and nourished....what is the point! There are plenty more examples sadly. For example Epizephyrian Lokri is a fascinating place, far more than coinage (especially as they were late to mint) but most of the discoveries lie in crates scattered around the area's museums. The claim is they haven't got round to analysing and publishing it. Many of the huge number of crates are from Orsi's excavations in circa 1900! That's quite a lot of time. Large parts of the site remain officially unexcavated, though oddly coins and material seem to pop up regardless. I'm sure all are from looters and none is from these crates... The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli is another obvious sinner. They still haven't shown anything like a full list of the coins that were stolen nor is it at all clear which were the ones that were recovered. A cynic might wonder why, especially as it was partly an inside-job based on arrests. It's very hard to say secrecy/lack of access/lack of cataloging is for anything other than nefarious ends. Plus some of those museums have just vast numbers of coins, the temptation to borrow a few must be enormous. Who is going to miss just one of these in Syracuse's museum (incidentally named after Orsi) - (not my photo but I can attest to piles of all sorts of ancients like this there) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cordoba Posted August 6 · Member Share Posted August 6 is there a hoard of these dispersing? i think the recent leus have been selling a bunch of these, with pretty similar find patinas, from a european collection formed before 2005 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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