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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 7807467, member: 118780&quot;]My win today didn&#039;t come from the Wise Centaur collection, but I&#039;m super happy to win it.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340945[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>KINGS of MACEDON. Ptolemy Keraunos. </b>281-279 BC. AR Tetradrachm. In the name and types of Alexander III. Amphipolis mint. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; monograms in left field and below throne. Price 537; Mathisen, <i>Administrative</i> –. In NGC encapsulation 4934453-015, graded Ch F.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, I read Mathisen and he doesn&#039;t really attribute this coin to Ptolemy Keraunos. In fact, he attributes no coin to him. The trumpet series tets, which came after this series, he states belong to either Keraunos or to Antigonos II Gonatas, and since they operated in the same geographic area and had equal reasons to use a trumpet, it&#039;s not possible to say.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins in this series are attributed to the period between when Keraunos knocked of Seleukos and when he made his way up to Amphipolis. During that time, a number of pretenders attempted to take the throne.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, Price 537 occurs late in that series, so maybe Ptolemy Keraunos had reached Amphipolis by then? We really can&#039;t know. What is known is that there aren&#039;t a lot of Price 537 copies out there (seems like ~20) and maybe someone will come along some day and either affirm that this is Ptolemy Keraunos, or attribute it to an even rarer pretender.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime, I&#039;m going to happily label it as &quot;Ptolemy Keraunos.&quot; Tets attributed to him don&#039;t come up often, so I&#039;m super-excited to receive it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin should be happy too. I&#039;m going to free it from its claustrophobic box. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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