Caramessini-Oeconomides,M " An unpublished Athenian
New Style Tetradrachm" SYMMEIKTA 1974/5 plus Revue Numismatica de Belge "the Hierprytena
Hoard"
The last ever discovered "NewStyle" found many years later it's discovery in the Hierprytena
Hoard CRETE (disc c 1933) identified 1974. This single specimen is on an unidentified
ALEXANDER lll
tetradrachm. It cannot be given a chronology or sequence being unique.
The fact that it was in that
hoard and that the
hoard contained no issues of DIOKLES that it didn't have the last (ish) of the NewStyles. The magistrate Mnastagoras and Mentor are known from other post-Sullan New Styles..are they the same..from the same families?
The symbol
Apollo with
Lyre suggest an affiliation with a temple.
To me who views the post Sullan NewStyles after the last Mithradatic wars as personal/organisational issues and this coin being struck on an
Alexander as such an issue
type...anything would do!
Who said the NewStyles (Thoneman....were overblown, over-crowded, simply a mess... )
The most interesting set of coinage about!
The Hierprytena
hoard is fascinating for many reasons... commonly available on JSTOR Cristophori,
Denarii (
republican) what more do you want, but NEWSTYLES!