Due to a bad description and bad pics I managed to buy this dimple free coin for a song. Found the correct description on PtolemyCoin project from Daniel Wolf: http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html Please show your Ptolemy diobols , thanks
Nice coin! Not the usual Zeus Ammon I don't know the denomination names of the pound of Ptolemy bronzes in my collection. Maybe some are diobols? Is there anything suggesting these coins were contemporarily called diobols (or obols or octobols or whatever) or is it just a handy modern classification? Edited before posting: Looks like the PtolemyBronze website has an article on metrology so I guess I could read that
I thought you were the expert on these bronze Ptolomy coins TIF I know you own a laaarge collection of them. You probably own a couple of these diobols next to your Ptolomey drachma hockeypucks I bought this one because it has no dimples / central holes used to hold the planchets when flattened by a lathe machine. After that the planchets were struck into coins. Heres a later diobol with the common central holes:
Very nice coins @Andres2 and @Clavdivs I have several diobols of Ptolemy II, the two below are my more recent acquisitions. I really like these coins for their nice size and depiction of Zeus. Ptolemy II AE Diobol, Sidon (Saida, Lebanon) mint. 260 - 246 B.C. 30.7mm 20.912g Obv: laureate head of Zeus right. Rev: PTOLEMAIOU BASILEWS, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, closed wings, filleted double cornucopia over shoulder, no monogram between legs. Svoronos 760 Ptolemy II AE Diobol, Alexandria mint, c. 274 - 261 B.C. 27.6mm 15.883g, Obv: diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right. Rev: PTOLEMAIOU BASILEWS, eagle standing left on thunderbolt, wings open, head left, monogram over shield left, P between legs. Svoronos 593
My Ptolemy is quite worn. I have read and searched the Ptolemy Coin project for days trying to find out which Ptolemy it is, but to no avail. At this point they all look the same to me Maybe you guys can help? 27 x 28 mm, 13.95 g Obverse: Diademed head of Zeus-Ammon right Reverse: ΠΤΟΛΕΜΑΙΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ Ptolemaic Eagle standing left on thunderbolt, monogram AP (?) or MI (?) before and there could have been also a monogram above.
Fantastic capture @Andres2 ! Super to know your coins, then while away a super misattributed deal! Congrats! NONE of mine are dimple free, even the small Chalkous that I have. Amazing. I have a Ptolemy II but it is an Obol, instead of yoor Diobol: Egypt Ptolemy II 285-274 BC AE Obol 20mm 6.7g Alex III Eagle Tbolt Plain SV 601 And, here is that small Chalkous WITH a dimple that I mentioned: Egypt Ptolemy III Euergetes 246-222 BCE AE Chalkous 12.0mm 2.0g Zeus-Ammon Eagle Trident Svoronos 840 ex Righetti Collection
