Yes, I agree that an over strike is not likely. The reverse shows absolutely no signs of another coin's design. The coin is something of an...
That's a beautiful coin! I love the style and the centering.
Thanks. Stylistically I compared my coin to the Ptolemy I tets online. Like your Ptolemy I tetradrachm, the portrait is different, compared to...
Nice coins! Yes, the heft of a large bronze coin, be it a sestertius, Ptolemaic "hockey puck" or a cast Roman Republic bronze, provides a...
This coin just arrived today. It is a tetradrachm of, I believe, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, Alexandria. While I have seen numerous tetradrachms of...
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