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<p>[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3571172, member: 56859"]OooooooooooooAhhhhhhhhhh!! <b>Nice</b> haul!!</p><p><br /></p><p>They are all from Egypt (except the JC, of course). Sorting out the Ptolemaic coins can be a headache. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://ptolemybronze.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ptolemybronze.com/" rel="nofollow">PtolemyBronze.com</a> is the place to go for the bronze coins. Their <a href="http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html" rel="nofollow">denomination series page</a> will probably be the most helpful (pictures and descriptions).</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not sure of the best free online resource for attributing the Ptolemaic tetradrachms. You can access Svoronos on the PtolemyBronze website (first page; descriptions and plates are separate... it's a bit of a pain). Some of that scholarship is going to be outdated though so you may find different attributions for the same coins in ACsearch.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bottom three bronzes are from Roman Egypt. CNG's archives or ACsearch can help, or if you give up, I'll tell you what they are and provide the attributions (will need reverse images, of course).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="TIF, post: 3571172, member: 56859"]OooooooooooooAhhhhhhhhhh!! [B]Nice[/B] haul!! They are all from Egypt (except the JC, of course). Sorting out the Ptolemaic coins can be a headache. [URL='http://ptolemybronze.com/']PtolemyBronze.com[/URL] is the place to go for the bronze coins. Their [URL='http://ptolemybronze.com/ptolemy_series.html']denomination series page[/URL] will probably be the most helpful (pictures and descriptions). I'm not sure of the best free online resource for attributing the Ptolemaic tetradrachms. You can access Svoronos on the PtolemyBronze website (first page; descriptions and plates are separate... it's a bit of a pain). Some of that scholarship is going to be outdated though so you may find different attributions for the same coins in ACsearch. The bottom three bronzes are from Roman Egypt. CNG's archives or ACsearch can help, or if you give up, I'll tell you what they are and provide the attributions (will need reverse images, of course).[/QUOTE]
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