Hi All, A seldom seen Ptolemaic AE from Ptolemais-Lebedus in Ionia. [ATTACH] Lebedus was 36 km to the NW of Ephesus. The Turkish villages...
Hi All, Nero, looking a bit like Claudius. [ATTACH] Next: An emperor looking like his predecessor. - Broucheion
Hi All, [ATTACH] Bought from Bargain Bin Ancients (CT member Brian Buckland, his photo). Attributed to Cyrenaica, late 2nd century, by T V...
Hi All, Antoninus Pius Alexandrian drachm with six-pillared temple. [ATTACH] From BMC Alexandria: "The extraordinary type of an Altar of great...
Hi All, Isis Lactans. [ATTACH] Dattari ex-Naville Auction 50, Lot #271. - Broucheion
Hi All, Ptolemy II, Stater of Tyre. TYP monogram above CLUB issue. [ATTACH] OBV: Ptolemy I head facing right, wearing diadem and scaly aegis...
Hi All, Not your usual headdress of Isis on a Ptolemaic AE of Cleopatra. The reign attribution is based on the idea that these latter Ptolemaic...
Hi All, Here's a Gordian alliance coin of Alexandria and Ephesus. Are there any more lurking out there? [ATTACH] - Broucheion
Hi All, This one is from Egyptian Hoards #96, The Iraq Al-Amir Hoard, 1993 (CH 9.497, 10.268), "Mygind's stock" (pl 16.5): pl 45, #826B. Bought...
Hi all, Not a coin, but an article “Bats in Greco-Roman Antiquity” https://www.batcon.org/article/bats-in-greco-roman-antiquity/ - Broucheion
Hi @Heliodromus, I have one of those too. I’m sure it’s soft enough to bite into where you’ll find the brown center of the underlying (fake) coin...
Hi All, 1/3 Siglos with a similar countermark...
And of course Cleopatra looks like ....... [ATTACH] Frau Blucher! [IMG] - Broucheion
Hi @ValiantKnight, This is as Alexandrian as can be. I’ve never seen a fourree of this type of coin (doesn’t mean there were none, just that they...
Hi @ValiantKnight, This coin looks like an original (I couldn't find a die match in my 'black files' for year 30 of Ptolemy XII). However, I...
Hi All, Here's one form Alexandria. [ATTACH] - Broucheion
Dear @Severus Alexander May Athena "Defender or Protector of the People" protect you and fight for you. [ATTACH] A.B. Brett in "ATHENA...
Hi All, Not your usual Ptolemaic silver denomination, not your usual Ptolemaic mint city ... but it's got a Galatian shield. [ATTACH]...
Hi @Deacon Ray, This type is now thought to be from Jerusalem. See http://numismatics.org/pocketchange/sco-update/ ("Seleucid Coins Online as a...
Hi All, [ATTACH] NEXT: Something that crawls. - Broucheion
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