[68] Broughton, in ESAR , 4:555-57, and Magie, RRAM , 238-39, for the old view. Regling, Frankfurter Münzzeitung n.F. 3 (1932) 506-10, showed, on the basis of the Karacabey hoard (IGCH 1358), that Tralles continued cistophoric coinage after Sulla, inaugurating a new era in 85/84. Pergamum continues its massive volume of cistophori after Sulla: see Kleiner, ANSMN 23 (1978) 77-105. Cf. Kleiner, ANSMN 18 (1972) 17-32, on the cistophori of Ephesus. The behavior of other cistophoric mints such as Apamea, Smyrna, and Sardis remains less clear, but it would be no surprise to find that they continued to coin after Sulla as well. The noncistophoric silver coinage of Asia is too little studied for us to draw firm conclusions. Deppert-Lippitz, Münzprägung Milets , 117, 119, gives no new insight, merely assuming an end of Milesian coinage in 86/85 through its loss of "autonomy."

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