genuine ancient coins?
Bottom two are the same - both extremely common Sv 1426 likely from 2nd half of 2nd C. BC. Symbol next to the eagles is a stylized cornucopia or...
This appears to be an extremely unfortunate example of hacking, carving, tooling, scraping, gouging, and near destruction of the reverse in an...
Interesting way the die maker cut the border of dots on the obverse. PtolemAE
Yes - It's an easy call. See the coin photos showing both types on ptolemybronze.com Sv 1426 and 1698 look rather different once you get past...
Svoronos 1698, Ptolemy X, ca 100 BC
[ATTACH] A bit of a lag since the last post here so time to ping this thread with a fresh image posting. Many shown here are BIG Ptolemaic coins...
Your (top) coin is thought to be an issue of Hieron II possibly continuing or supplementing a run of somewhat similar types of coins produced for...
Here's another no-eagle type, Cyprus issue with a statue of Aphrodite on the reverse. One of five sizes that all look alike, this one about 17mm,...
Really great to see all these nice Ptolemaic coins in this thread. Let's keep it going. Here's one I've liked for some time. Said to be an...
These are impressive, regardless. And it's the design type that defines the octobol - it's different from any other Ptolemaic coin. The weights...
What's anomalous about the 0h die orientation of the bronze coin?
[ATTACH] Decent Svoronos 446 octobol, 95.66 gm. Note that the range for these is from about 75 to over 110 grams and the *mean* weight (published...
The ptolemybronze.com site specifically because the attribution of those types of coins is difficult. It has become the 'first stop' for...
For identification of Ptolemaic bronze coins you may wish to refer to www.ptolemybronze.com and go to the 'coin photos' page which can help...
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