A Newly Identified Mint Control Link in the Coinage of Andragoras and Sophytes

This paper outlines the significance of a control and die linked Andragoras-Sophytes Series 4 (Zeus/eagle) diobol, which confirms the inference that the kerykeion mint control was introduced after the grape vine branch that accompanies it, prior to the complete displacement of the latter by the kerykeion. The presence of the kerykeion mint control on Series 4 increases the level of control linkage and and validates the previously inferred relative chronology in the Andragoras-Sophytes coinage. Most significantly it is now established that the Series 4 issues provided the prototype for an imitative coinage of the same iconography - a finding of chronological significance. 

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