Their is
plenty to do in the early late
catalogue NewStyles, this is the time when it appears that the Pontic influence in the
symbols can be adduced. Some of the coins have NO known
obverse or other die links, thus they are orphans.
Hoards need looking at., Genuine examples on the Bay need looking at. All are available except the NewStyle in the name of
King Mithradates for which the Bronze/Lead is commonly available.What about the sequencing? Where belongs
Kernos?
Mattingly now, following
Boehringer now wants to split up the 2nd & 3rd issue of Xenocles and Harmoxenos.
Once Mr
Mattingly wanted a gap in issues during those stressful times He died not too long ago..what was
his final position...it could be yours ( or mine but I keep hopping like a cat on a hot tin roof) The famous Sullan siege and beyond.. when did the NewStyles start again..did they ever stop. What of the ethnicless O Demos when and where What of the
ethniced 2 Ear of Grain which is in many ways a dead ringer for O Demos but with magistrates but with a guy with a
Roman name Kointos. Was he the same Kointos who was 2nd magistrate on the controversial
Roma &
Nike issue. Is it really
Roma? Yes its die linked to the "
Roma" issue . And that is
drachm die linked to Apellikon whose symbol the
Griffin adorns the coins...btw the
Griffin is the badge of
Teos. Just where he is supposed to come from. Is he the same Apellikon who used to steal
library rolls. And is he the same Appelikon who led a failed attack on the treasury of Delos. Cutting along there is not enough years and issues between the first 10 post Sullan's till the first appearance of the NEO
Dionysos c 42 BC in
Athens. So I think they are private or organisational issues. Memories of a better past. Or ...where the NewStyles never strictly yearly issues... the 29 coin
type of the 28 first issues means what? What's that, I have often mentioned it hoping that someone would notice it...but nobody ever did. Look what
Mattingly did with the post Sullan sequence in L.
Julius Caesar: Governor of
Macedonia. Look at Thompsons sequencing in NSSCA adjust for 29 years in the great chronology battles ( or not)
Are the
Amphora letters actually month indicators and what of the second control. Someone thinks that by selecting this and that it tells how many coins were issued!
It can be all up in the air, if you want it to be. This is not a single issue this is a series spanning hellenistic times to
Roman times. Is it a Proxy
Roman coinage, what was it for? What of the coins before the NewStyle of
Athens. Anyone got one? Know what they look like?
Where does it fit in with the other Stephanophores, the artists of
Dionysos., Lebos, Tenedos,Kyme,
Myrina,
Magnesia and the coinages of the gods the Kyborrai mystery,,.Attalid coinage generally worked out by
Westermark.
So much, most
Roman coins can be dated to the year and which
mint and
officina, there must be mysteries in them but not as great as the NewStyles and then add the coins of the gods and others. READ the Great Transformation by
Meadows.
Now truly tell me that none of it is interesting . You don't need to afford masterpieces like Mark & Lottie you can always look at catalogues and papers and books. By all means have a
LRB for texture ( I've
still got 2 DN
Valens) one bought in the shadow of the Great Pyramid and a much much better example from
e-bay to see what they really looked like..from kyzykios I believe but they photograph badly. But I cann0ot honestly say they stir the
pot for me.