This is a New Style Athenian tetradrachm, part of the massive civic coinage Athens resumed around 165 BC after a long interruption. The "New Style" series is distinguished from the classical owl coinage by the inclusion of annual magistrate names — here, three officials whose names are partially preserved in the catalog as Mened..., Epigeno..., and Epigo.... Thompson's 1961 corpus remains the definitive reference for sequencing these magistrate combinations and establishing the chronology of the series.
Thompson 351b places this pair firmly in the 135–134 BC window, a period when Athens operated under Roman oversight following the sack of Corinth in 146 BC.
This is a New Style Athenian tetradrachm, part of the massive civic coinage Athens resumed around 165 BC after a long interruption. The "New Style" series is distinguished from the classical owl coinage by the inclusion of annual magistrate names — here, three officials whose names are partially preserved in the catalog as Mened..., Epigeno..., and Epigo.... Thompson's 1961 corpus remains the definitive reference for sequencing these magistrate combinations and establishing the chronology of the series.
Thompson 351b places this pair firmly in the 135–134 BC window, a period when Athens operated under Roman oversight following the sack of Corinth in 146 BC.