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36 Peter F.Dorcey
EETI(AI)2° and HPAKAEOYE (pl. 5, no. 11) are die linked with each
other. Whether they and the remaining EENO magistrate are to be placed
before or after the AAKON issue is unclear. Prices places EETI(AI),
HPAKAEOYE (pl. 5, no. 11) and EENO after the Mithridatic issue.
However, there is good reason to suppose that these came before, since they
are similar in style to coins minted by the EKA and OEM magistrates. Since
EENO dies may carry the same portrait of Mithridates as AAKON, it
perhaps also dates 88-72. Thus, it would appear that the Mithridatic portrait
an AAKON or EENO represents the last coin type issued at Odessos. The
posthumous Alexander silver evidently came to a halt not with the sack of
the city by the Getae around 50, but with the advent of the Romans in 72.
The chronology of the magistrates can be thus summarized:
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Group I (Classical)
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20 Schlessinger, Feb. 11, 1934, no. 166 (auction catalogue).
Category I (before 190)
Category II
(probably before 190)
Category III
(perhaps before 190)
Category IV
(after 190, perhaps to
be classified with
Group II minters)